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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 11 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/7/11

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Survey of Carts in the Burgh of Kinghorn from
the 5th April 1790 to 5th April 1791 by Charles Robb Surveyor

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11 Carts at 2/ [0.2.0] Each Is £1.2.0
2 Carts at 4/ [£0.4.0] Each Is £0.8.0
£1.10.0

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful Examination of
the foregoing Several rates and Duties I find they Amount in whole to On pound Ten Shillings Sterlling
and that upon the Sixteen day of November I delivered to John Hutton Collector
of the saed duties for the Burgh aforesaed an Exact duplicat of the above Account
duly Examineed and compared with the foregoing which Contained my Oath that
Nottices were left with the Several parsons befor named or at their dwelling houses
of the dates anexed to their respective Names requiring them within fourteen
dayes to give in alist of their Carriages or Saddele horses (retined or employed by
them fromthe 5 day of April 1789 to the 5 day of April 1790 and that the said
Account or Survey is med Out from the list returned to me and from the Best
Information I could procure of the Carriage or horses (of those whose list ar deficient
Neglcited or refused to give in alist their of in termes of the Nottices left with them
as aforesaid

Charles Robb Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 11 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/7/11

This volume contains information on the cart tax collected from the burghs of Aberdeen, Arbroath, Annan, Ayr, Anstruther, Banff, Burntisland, Brechin, Crail, Campbeltown, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dunbar, Dunfermline, Dumfries, Dundee, Dysart, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverkeithing, Inverness, Inverbervie, Inverary, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcaldy, Kilrenny, Kinghorn, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Perth, Pittenweem, Peebles, Queensferry, Rothesay, Renfrew, Rutherglen, Sanquhar, Selkirk, St Andrews, Stranraer, and Stirling in 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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