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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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I William Brunton surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I
find the above duties amount to the Sum of Three pound Ten Shillings and that upon
the Twenty Seventh day of November I delivered to John Robertson Collector of these duties for [the]
Shire aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above which containd my Oath the Preceeding
Inhabitants were duly served Requisitions of the dates foresaid desiring them
within fourteen days to deliver or cause to deliver to me upon calling for that purpose
an Attested list of all the Servants horses and carriages used and employed by them from
the 5 of April 1790 to the 5 of April 1791 as well as an account of what Servants horses and
carriages they might use and employ any where Else and that the forgoing report was made
up from their several Attested lists or returns to me from the best information I could procure
or from my own certain knowledge of their respective Establishments
William Brunton

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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