E326/5/27/27

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Survey of the rates & Duties on Male Servants within the Country Parishes of Buteshire from 5th July
1797 to 5th April 1798 By William Ewart
per 37th George 3d

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2 Male Servts [Servants] @ £0.7.6 ea. [each] is £0.15.0
20 Pr Ct [Per Cent] thereon £0.3.0
Total £0.18.0

I William Ewart Assistant Surveyor by appointment of the Barons of His Majesty's Exchequer
to Robert Aiken Surveyor of the Counties of Ayr and Bute Do hereby Certify that upon careful
examination of the foregoing Rate and Duty I find it amounts by prooff to Eighteen shillings Sterling!
And I caused deliver conform to his Receipt to Alexander May Esquire Collector of said Duty an
exact Duplicate of this Account which contained my oath that the rate and duty charged in said
Account was just and true to the best of my Skill knowledge and belief and no person ommitted
to my knowledge who ought to have been charge
William Ewart

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Transcriber's notes

The entry for the Earl of Bute appears to have been inserted later - the Duty against his name is NOT included in the Proof