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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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I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful Examination of
the foregoing duties I find they amount in whole to Three pound Sterlling
and that upon the Sixteen day of November I delivered to William Drysdall
Collector of the saed Duties for the Burgh aforesaed an Exact duplicat of the
above Account duly Examined 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 Carriage or Saddele horses retined or
Employed by them from the 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 Saddele of those whose lists are deficiant Negleited or
refused to give in alist theirof in termes of the Nottices left with them as
aforesaed

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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