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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 in the Burgh of Dysart from 5 day of April 1790 to 5 day
of April 1791 By Charles Robb Assessor

Prooff

16 Carts at 2/ [£0.2.0] Each £1.12.0 £0.3.2.4

I Charles Robb Assessor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful Examination of
the foregoing dutties I find they Amount in whole to One pound Twelve Shillings Sterlling
and the ten per Cent duty to Three shilling and two pence four tents Sterlling and that
upon the Eight day November I delivered to David Sune Collector of the 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 Nottices were left with
the Several parsons befor Named requiring 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 Made Out
from the list returned to me and from the best information I could procure of the Carr [Carriage]
or Saddle horses of those whose lists are deficaint neglected or refused to give in alist
there of in termes 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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