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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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[Page] 134

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination
I find the above duties amount to the Sum of Two pound fourteen Shillings and that [upon]
the Twenty seventh day of November I delivered to John Hyslop Collector of these duties [for]
the Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the Above which contained my Oath that the
preceeding inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions of the forward dates desiring
them within Fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered 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 day of April 1790 to the 5 day of April 1791 as well as an account of what Servants horses and
carriages they might use or 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 coud procure or from my
own Certain knowledge of their Respective Establishments
William Brunton

A Survey of the Cart
Tax in the Burgh of Peebles
from the 5 of April 1790
to the 5 of April 1791
✓ S [Surveyor]
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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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