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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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I John Wood Surveyor do hereby Certify that
upon careful Examination I find these duties to amount to
the Sum of Seventy one pounds Eighteen shillings and nine pence
and that upon the sixteenth day of January instant I did deliver to
the office of George Cranstoun Esqr. Collector a full Duplicate of
this acct. [Account] in which I made faith that the Charges against the
several Inhabitants were made either in consequence of the
Returns to my Requisitions or from the best possible information
I could receive where they failed to make such Returns
Edin. [Edinburgh] 20 January. John Wood
1792

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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