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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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I Charles Robb Assessor Do hereby certify That upon carefull
Examination of the foregoing rates and duties I find they amount in
whole to the sum of of Seventeen pounds & forteen Shillings Sterling And
that Upon the Thirteenth day of March I declared to Mr Charles
Mitchell Collector for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the
above Accompt duly Examined and compared with the foregoing
which contained my Oath that notices were left with there hole
Several 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
[signed] Charles Robb Assessor

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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