E326/9/32/31

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Survey of the rates & Duties on Carriage & Saddle Horses within the Country Parishes
of Bute Shire from 5th July 1797 to 5th April 1798 By William Ewart

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2 Horses @ 3/9 each is £0.7.6
20 pr. Ct [per Cent] thereon £0.1.6
Total £0.9.0

I William Ewart Assistant Surveyor by appointment of the
Barone of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer to Robert Aiken
Surveyor of the Counties of Ayr and Bute Do hereby Certify
that upon Careful Examination of the foregoing Rates and
Duties I find they Amount by Proof to Nine Shillings Sterling
And I caused deliver conform to this the asst. [assistant] to Alexander
May Esqr Collector of said Duties an Exact Duplicate of
this Account, which contained my Oath that Requisitions
had been delivered or left and that the Rates and Duties
charged in said account were just and true to the best
of my Skill and Knowledge and that to my belief, no person
who ought to have been charged was omitted
William Ewart