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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # 1 horse (10s) 2 horses 3-5 horses 6 or more horses Duty 10% per 31 George III
Burgh of Stranraer
12 Jul 1794 William Ross Esqr. 2 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
James Wallace, horse hirer 1 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
John McDowal Mercht. [Merchant] 1 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
William McCrae 1 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
5 4 1 £2.15.0 £0.5.6

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[Page] 129
Survey of the CARRIAGE AND SADDLE HORSE TAX. in the Burgh of
Stranraer from the 5th. of April 1794 to the 5th. of April 1795 by David Mcmillan Surveyor

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4 Horses at 10/- [£0.10.0] each is £2.0.0
1 Horse at 15/- [£0.15.0] each is £0.15.0
£2.15.0 Horse Tax
Ten Pr [per] Cent thereon is £0.5.6 Ten Pr [per] Cent
£3.0.6 Total

I David Mcmillan Assist. [Assistant] Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon
careful examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount in
whole to the sum of Three pounds and Six pence Sterling and that upon
the Twenty Seventh day of Octr. [October] one Thousand Seven Hundred and
ninety four years I delivered to Thomas Mcnair Collector of the said duties
for the Burgh of Stranraer an exact Duplicate of the foregoing which
contained my Oath that Requisitions or notices were delivered or left
with the several Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of the dates
annexed to their respective names that they were to be charged with
the sums here by certified to be due from them -
[signed] David Mcmillan Surveyor

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