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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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I Charles Robb Assesor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful Examination of the
foregoing duties I find they Amount in whole to Two pounds Six Shillings Sterlling
and the ten per Cent duty to Four Shillings and Seven pence Two tents Sterlling and that
upon the Fourth day November I delivered to Andrew Gillen Collector of the said
duties for the Burgh aforesaid an Exact duplicat of the above Account duly Examined
and compaed with the foregoing which contained My Oath that Nottices were left
with the Several person befor named or at their dwelling houses of the dates Annexed
to their Respective Names requiring them within fourteen dayes to give in a list
of their Carriage or Saddle horses Retained or employed by them from the 5 day
of April 1790 to the 5 day of April 1791 and that the said Account or Survey is Made
Out from the list returned to me and frome the best information I could procure of
the Carr. [Carriage] or Saddle horses of those whose lists ar deficiant neglected or refused to give
in a list these of in termes of the Nottices left with them as aforesaid
Charles Robb Assessor

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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