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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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[Page] 228

Survey
of
the Cart Tax in the
Shire of Roxburgh
from the 5 of Aprile
1790 to the 5 of Aprile 1791
√ S.
22


I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull
examination I find the above duties amount to the Sum of Seven pounds Ten shillings
and that upon the ... day of .... I delivered to John Rutherfor Coll [Collector]
of these dutys for the Shire aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above which containd my [Oath]
that the preceeding inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions of the dates foresaid
desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon my [calling]
for that purpose an Attested list of all the Servants horses and Carriages used and employed
by them from the 5 of Aprile 1789 to the 5 of Aprile 1790 as well as an account of what
Servants horses and Carriages they might use and employ any where else and that [ the]
foregoing 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

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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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