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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Shop tax - Volume 2 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/4/2

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Survey of Shop Tax Burgh of Inveraray
from 5th July 1785 to 5 April 1786.
By Duncan MacNuier Surveyor

I Duncan McNuier Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon Carefull examination of the foregoing
duty I find it amounts to one shilling and Tenpence halfpenny sterling, And that upon the
thirteenth day of March Seventeen Hundred and Eighty six years I delivered to Peter McArthur Deput to Donald
Campbell Esqr. Collector of the said Duty for the Burgh aforesaid in absence of the said Donald
Campbell an exact Duplicate of the above Accompt Duly examined and compared with the
foregoing which contained my Oath that notice was given to the above mentioned James and Alexander
Campbell's of the date mentioned that they ere to be charged with the Rate and duty
set against their names Duncan MacNuier

Transcriber's notes

This page and the following one are shown on the index page as being for Inverness but are, in fact, for Inverary.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Shop tax - Volume 2 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/4/2

This volume contains information on who paid late 18th century shop tax in the burghs of Aberdeen, Ayr, Banff, Campbeltown, Dingwall, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverary, Inverness, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Montrose, Perth, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, and Tain.

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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