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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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Clackmanan County Cart Tax Survey Continued
1791

Prooff
45 Carts at £0.2.0 £4.10.0
5 Carts at £0.4.0 £1.0.0
£5.10.0
To ye [the] 10 P Cent on y. [the] Same £0.11.0.0
Totall £6.1.0.0

I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon careful
Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount in
whole to the sum of Six Pound one Shilling Sterling And that upon
the Fourteenth day of October last I delivered to Mr. John Jameson Collector
for the foresaid an Exact Dupplicate of the foregoing Survey which
contained my oath that the several persons before named were duly
Served with Requisitions & Notices whereby they were to be charged
with the several duties hereby certified to be due by them
James Watsone Surveyor
Linlithgow 2d November
1791

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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