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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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Survey of Kincardine Shire Continued

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify That upon
careful examination of the foregoing several rates and duties I find
they amount in whole to Fourty three pounds nineteen shillings
and four pence halfpenny sterling And that upon the .....
day of ......... 1798 I delivered to Messrs. Alexander Gardyne
and John Burnett joint Collectors of the said duties for the
Shire aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above Account duly
examined and compared with the foregoing which contained
my Oath That notices were left with the whole foregoing
inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of the dates annexed to
their respective names requiring them within fourteen days
to give in a List of the Clocks and Watches used by them
or their families between the first of August 1797 and the
day of their making the said returns And that the said survey
was made out from the Lists returned to me and from
the best information I could procure of the Clocks & Watches
of those whose Lists were defficient or who neglected and
refused to return Lists in terms of the Notices of requisition
left with them aforesaid. William Grieg Surveyor.

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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