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

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Survey of the SHOP TAX in the Burgh of
Sanquhar from the 5th April 1786 to 5th April 1787 by William Currie Surveyor

Proof
£6 valued Rent at 4d £0.0.4] Pr. [Per] £ is £0.2.0

I William Currie Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull
examination of the foregoing sevl. [several] rates and duties I find the Amount in the whole
to two shillings Stg. [Sterling] and that upon the 22 day of Dec 1786 I delivered to Mr. William
Whigan Collr. [Collector] of the said duties for the burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate
of the foregoing which contained my Oath that notices were left with the
sevl. [several] inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of the date annexed to their respective
names that ware to be charged with the Sums hereby certified to be due
from them
William Currie
John Alves J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

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

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, Irvinem Jedburgh, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Montrose, Perth, Sanquhar, 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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