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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 12 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/7/12

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Lanerk Shire Survey Continued
[Page] 150

I William Mure Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby Certify that, upon Carefull
Examination of the foregoing Several Rates & Duties, I find they amount
in whole, to One hundred & Twenty four pounds Seventeen Shillings Sterling,
and that upon the twenty second of November I delivered to Archbald Hamilton
Esqr Collector of the said Duties, for the Shire aforesaid, an Exact Duplicate
of the above Account duly Examined & Compared with the foregoing, which
Contained my Oath, that Requesitions were left with the Several Inhabitants,
at their Dwelling Houses, of the dates annexed to their respective
names & they are to be Charged with the sums hereby Certified to due
from them William Mure



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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 12 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/7/12

This volume contains information on the cart tax collected from the counties of Aberdeenshire, Ayrshire, Argyll, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Clackmannanshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian (Haddington), Fife, Forfarshire (Angus), Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Morayshire (Elgin), Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Stirlingshire, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) and Wigtownshire in 1791-1792.

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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