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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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Lanark Shire Survey Continued
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1111 Carts with 2 Wheels Each at £0.2.0 Each Cart is £111. 2.0
3 Carts with 4 Wheels Each at £0.4.0 Each Cart is £0.12.0
1114 Grand Total £111.14.0

I William Mure Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby certify that upon
carefull Examination of the foregoing Rates & Duties, they amount in Whole to
One Hundred & Eleven pounds fourteen Shillings Sterling and that, upon the
-- I delivered to Archibald Hamilton Esqr Collector of the said Duties [for]
the Shire aforesaid, an Exact duplicat of the above Account Duly Examined & Comp [Compared]
with the foregoing, which Contained my Oath, that Requisitions were left with the 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
William Mure Surveyor

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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