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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 Innerkithing from the
5th of April 1789 to 5th April 1790 By Charles Robb Surveyor
[Page] 87

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9 Carts at £0.2.0 Each is £0.18.0
3 Waggons at £0.4.0 Each Is £0.12.0
[Total] £1.10.0

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful Examination of
the foregoing duties I find they Amount in whole to One pound Ten Shillings Sterlling
and that upon the Twenty theed [third] day of November I delivered to John Killick Collector
of the saed Duties for the Burgh aforesaid 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 Carrige or Saddele horses (retained 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 horses (of those whose list ar deficient Negleited or refused to
give in a list their of 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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