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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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Stirling County Stirling

I James Allan Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby
Certify That upon carefull Examination I find the foregoing
duties Amount to the Sum of Thirty five Pounds, Six Shil
lings Sterg. [Sterling] and that upon the 15th Curt. [Current] I delivered to Mr.
Thomas Wingate Collector of said duties an exact duplicate
of this Account duly Examined and Compared which contained
my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly served
with Notices or that they were charged according to my
knowledge & belief that they were liable in said Duties
Alloa 17th Jany. [January]. James Allan Surveyor
1791

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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