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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 Anstruther Easter from 5th april 1790 to 5th april
1791 By Charles Robb Surveyor

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11 Carts at 2/ [£0.2.0] Each £1.2.0 ... £0.2.2.4

I Charles Robb Assessor aforesaed do hereby certify that upon careful Examination
of the foregoing duties I find they Amount in whole to One pound Two Shillings and
the ten per Cent duty to Two Shillings and Two pence four tents Sterlling and that upon
the Fourth day of November I delivered to Alexander Clark Collector of the said
Duties for the Burgh aforesaid 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 persons 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 from the best information I could prouere [procure] of the
Carr [Carriage] or Saddle horses of those whose lests ar deficiaent neglicted or refused to give
in alist these 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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