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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Clock and watch tax - Volume 2 - Counties (E-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/12/2

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Of Clocks & Watches duty
Forfarshire
for year to
5th April 1798
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Ex. [Examined] Pr. G.S. [General Surveyor] £178.12.6
E326/12/2
No.4
Inverness-shire
Survey of the Clock and Watch
Tax in the Shire of Inverness from 5th July to 5th April
1798 By John Rose Surveyor -- Alexander Mackae Assr. [Assesor]
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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Clock and watch tax - Volume 2 - Counties (E-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/12/2

Volume 2 contains clock and watch tax listings for the following counties: East Lothian (Haddingtonshire), Fife, Angus (Forfarshire), Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, and Lanarkshire. Please note that the Inverness-shire roll is not divided up on a parish by parish basis.

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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