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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Shop tax - Volume 8 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/4/8

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Survey of the Shop Tax in the Burgh of Stranraer
from the 5th April 1788 to the 5th April 1789 by Anthony MacMillan Surveyor

Proof £25.0.0 of valued rent at 4d [£0.0.4] per £ is £0.8.4
I Anthony MacMillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of
the foregoing several rates and duties I find the amount in Whole to be Eight Shillings
and four pence Sterling and that upon the twelfth day of Novr [November] one thousand
seven hundred and eighty eight years I delivered to Mr James McDowell 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 Several
foregoing Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of the Dates annexed to
their respective names that they were to be charged with the sums hereby
Certified to be due from them
Anthony MacMillan

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Shop tax - Volume 8 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/4/8

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

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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