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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 1 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/7/1

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To 49 Carts at 1/0d [1 shilling] £2.9.0

I John Veitch Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Careful
Examination of the foregoing Several Rates & duties I find they amount in
whole to Tow Pounds nine Shillings Sterl [Sterling] and that upon the 17th
March 1786 I transmtd. (transmitted) to Robert Colquhoun Collr. [Collector] of Said Duties for the Shire
Aforesaid an Exact duplicate of the Above Accots. [Accounts] duly Examined & Compared
with the foregoing which Contained my Oath that Requisitions were left with the
Several Inhabitants or at there dwelling houses of the dates annexed to their
Respective names and that the Assessments were made from the
Answers Sent me & now in my Possession
[signed] John Veitch Junr. [Junior] Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 1 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/7/1

This volume contains information on the cart tax collected from Aberdeenshire, Ayrshire, Argyll, Berwickshire, Clackmannanshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian, Fife, Forfarshire (Angus), Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Morayshire, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Stirlingshire, West Lothian and Wigtownshire in 1785-1786.

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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