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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 13 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/7/13

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Survey of the Cart Tax in the Burgh of Lochmaben,
from 5th April 1791, to 5th April 1792, by me William Currie Surveyor

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3 Carts @ £0.2.0 each is £0.6.0
10 per Cent upon £0.6.0 £0.0.7.2
Total £0.6.7.2

I William Currie Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon
careful examination I find the foregoing duties Amount to the
sum of Six shillings & sevenpence two tenths Stg. [Sterling] and that upon
the twenty fourth of Nov [November] Seventeen hundred and ninety one Years
I delivered to Provost Dickson Colr. [Collector] of said duties an exact duplicate
of Which Accmp. [Accompt] dully examined and compared which containd
my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly serd. [served] with
requisitions And that they were duly charged in Conformity to their
several returns & according to my knowledge and belief that they [were]
Liale [Liable] in said duties by me William Currie Surveyor
Joseph Johnston J: P [Justice of the Peace]

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 13 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/7/13

This volume contains information on the cart tax collected from the burghs of Aberdeen, Arbroath, Ayr, Anstruther, Banff, Burntisland, Brechin, Crail, Campbeltown, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dunbar, Dunfermline, Dundee, Dysart, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverkeithing, Inverness, Inverbervie, Inverary, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcaldy, Kilrenny, Kinghorn, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, North Berwick, Perth, Pittenweem, Peebles, Queensferry, Rothesay, Renfrew, Rutherglen, Sanquhar, Selkirk, St Andrews, Stranraer, and Stirling 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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