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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Ayr county - Volume 4 - balliaries of Cunninghame, Kyle and Carrick, E106/4/4

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Totall Valuation of the Shire of Air

49th
At Air the Nineteenth day
of May One thousand seven hundred and Fifty nine years.

Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie, William Duff of
Kirkland, Alexander Campbell of Drumgrange, and
William Cunningham of Auchenskieth having Conveened
in consequence of an Act of the General meeting of the
Commissioners of supply dated the Thirtieth of April last,
upon Friday the Eleventh of May Current, and inspected
the Several Rolls by which the Land Tax is Collected, and
Books of the Commissioners and the Several Judgements on,
the Petitions presented to them. They have Caused make up
the Book, or Roll of the Valuations of the Several Lands
in the Shire of Air. Agreeable thereto wrote on the Fourty eight
preceeding pages and Amounting in whole to One hundred and
Ninety one Thousand Six hundred & Five pounds & Seven
pennies Scots money, And have subscribed the same this
day (signed) Thomas Wallace William Duff
Alexander Campbell & William Cunningham & John Boswell Clk [Clerk]

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Ayr county - Volume 4 - balliaries of Cunninghame, Kyle and Carrick, E106/4/4

This volume contains land tax information on the Ayrshire bailliaries of Cunninghame, Kyle, and Carrick in 1759.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records)

The Scottish Exchequer, and subsequently the Court of Exchequer, were concerned with the accounting of collected taxes in Scotland. These taxes include the Carriage tax (1785-1798), Cart tax (1785-1798), Clock and watch tax (1797-1798), Dog tax (1797-1798), Farm horse tax (1797-1798), Servant tax (1777-1798), Hearth tax (1691-1695), Horse tax (1785-1798), Inhabited house tax (1778-1798), Land tax (1645-1831), Poll tax (1694-1698), Shop tax (1785-1789), Window tax (1748-1798). Following the Consolidating Acts (38 Geo. III cap. 40 and 41), the duties on windows, inhabited houses, male servants, carts, carriages and dogs were incorporated in Consolidated Schedules of Assessed Taxes (1798-1799).

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