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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 William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby that upon carefull examination
I find the above dutys amount to the Sum of four pounds one Shilling fourpence and
eight tenths And that upon the Fourth day of November I delivered to John Robertson Collector of Said
dutys for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above which contained my Oath that
the Preceeding inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions of the dates foresaid desireing
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 fifth of April Ninety one to the fifth of April ninety two as well as an account of what
servants Horses and carriages they might use and employ any where Else and that the
forgoing report was made up from their Severall Attested list or returns to me from the best
information I coud procure or from my own certain knowledge of their respective
Establishments
William Brunton

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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