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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Ayr county - Volume 5 - balliaries of Cunninghame, Kyle and Carrick, E106/4/5

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Table of Valued Rent taken from George Robertson's Topographical
description of Cuninghame, 1820.

Which corresponds with the County Books in the general sum, but differs materially
[in] the three articles Bourtreehill, Annock-Lodge, and Frairs'-Croft, also in a small
[degree] with Eglinton.
The following proprietors pay no Cess, having no valuation, but holding in Bur-
gage of the Burgh:-
The Burgh itself ...... ......... Under the charge of the Magistrates
Scots Lochs....................... Mr Warner of Ardeer.
Lochwards.............. .......... Dr. [Doctor] McKenzie and Robert Rankin.
Dalrymple Wards, etc. ..... Baillie Stewart.
And the following proprietors of various nameless subjects, and of various extent from
[20] acres downwards to half an acre and less - namely :-
Messrs Paterson, Mr Alexander Campbell (Greenfield), Mr John Campbell, Col. [Colonel] Reid,
Baillie Finlayson, Mr Cochran, Mr Gemmil, Mrs Fairie, Mr Peden, Mr Salmon,
the Glebe, the Poor, and perhaps 20 or 30 more in still smaller portions.
The whole of these Burgh lands extend to 750 acres or more.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Ayr county - Volume 5 - balliaries of Cunninghame, Kyle and Carrick, E106/4/5

This volume contains land tax information on the Ayrshire bailliaries of Cunninghame, Kyle, and Carrick in 1803.

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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