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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 Assessor aforesaed do hereby certify that wpon careful Examination
of the foregoing dutties I find they Amount in whole to Two pounds Fourteen Shillings
Sterlling and the ten per cent duty to Five Shillings and four pence Eight tenths
and that wpon the Fifth day November I delivered to Alexander Simson Collect of
said duties for the Burgh aforesaed an Exact duplicat of the Above Account duly
Examined and compared with the foregoing which contained My Oath that Notices
were left with the Several persons befor Named or at their dwelling houses
of the dates Annexed to their respective Names requering them within [Fourteen]
dayes to give in alist 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 mede 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 [are]
defiecaent neglected or refused to give in alist there of in terms of the Nottices [left]
with them as aforesaed
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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