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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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47 Carts in Burgh @ £0.2.0 . £4.14.0
10 per Cent. £0.9.4.9
£5.3.4.8
17 Carts in Burrowroods @ £0.2.0 . £1.14.0
10 per Cent. £0.3.4.8
£1.17.4.8
64 Carts Total £7.0.9.6

I William Currie Surveyor aforosesaid do hereby Certify that upon
carefull examination I find the foregoing duties Amount to the
sum of Seven Pounds Nine pence and six tenths Str. [Sterling] and that upon
the Twenty fourth day of Novr. [November] Seventeen hundred and Ninety
one Years I delivered to Mr Francis Maxwell Colr [Collector] of said duties an
exact duplicate of Which Accot [Account] duly examined and Compared
which contain:d my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly
Served with requisitions And that they were Charged in Conformmity
to their Several returns and according to my knowledge and belief
that they were liable in said duties
by William Currie Surveyor
Joseph Johnston J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

64 Carts @ £0.2.0 . £6.8.0 . £0.12.9.6

Exd. [Examined] GS [General Surveyor]

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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