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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 William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examnination
of the foregoing duties I find they amount in whole to Three Pounds Four Shillings Ster [Sterling]
and that upon the [--] day of [--] 1786 I delivered Alexander Garden Esqr Collector of
the said Duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account (as
will appear from [--]) duly examined and compared with the foregoing
which contained my Oath that nottices were left with the several persons before named
or at their dwelling houses of the dates announced to their respective Names requiring
them within fourteen days to give in a list of their Carts retained by them from the
10th of Octr [October] 1784 to the fifth of April 1785, and that the said account or Survey is made out
from the lists returned to me, and from the best information I could procure of the Carts
of those who neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the Nottices left
with them as aforesaid.
[Signed] William Greig Surveyor

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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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