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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 10 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/7/10

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Survey of the Cart Tax Kirkcudbright Shire
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29 Carts at £0.2.0 each £2.18.0
£2.18.0 Total

I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify
that upon Careful examination of the foregoing Rates and
duties, I find they amount in whole to the Sum of
Two pounds Eighteen Shillings Sterling, and that upon
the twenty three day of December one thousand
Seven Hundred & Ninety years I delivered to Alexander
Gordon Esq of Campbelton an exact Duplicate of the
foregoing which contained my Oath that reqn. [Requisitions] or notices
were left with the said several persons or at their
dwelling Places of the dates Annexed to their respective
Names that were to be charged with the duty so
certified to be due from them
Anthony Macmillan

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 10 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/7/10

This volume contains information on the cart tax collected from the counties of Aberdeenshire, Ayrshire, Argyll, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Clackmannanshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian, Fife, Forfarshire (Angus), Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Morayshire (Elgin), Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Stirlingshire, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) and Wigtownshire in 1790-1791.

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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