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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 Killrenie from the
5th. April 1790 to 5th April 1791 By Charles Robb Surveyor
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10 Carts at £0.2.0 Each is £1.0.0

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaed do hereby certefy that upon careful Examination
of the foregoing Several rates and Duties I find they Amount to On pound Sterlling and
that upon the Seventeen day of November I delivered to Robert Peates
Collector for the saed duties for the Burgh aforesaed an Exact duplicat
of the above Account duly Examened 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 a list 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 saed 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 lists ar deficient
Neglected or refused to give in a list theirof in termes of the Nottices left with them
as aforesaid

Charles Robb 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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