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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 14 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/7/14

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[Page] 39 KINROSS SHIRE

Survey of the
Covered Carriages or Carts with less than Four Wheels, per 35 Geo III. Cap cix.
[in the] County of Kinross from 5 April 1797 to 5 April 1798 By John Boyd Surveyor

Proof
1Carriage @. £0.10.0
the 10 per Ct. [Cent] £0.1.0
Total £0.11.0

I John Boyd Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify
that upon examination of the foregoing Rates & Duties
I find they amount to the Sum of Eleven Shillings
Sterling And that upon the Twenty eighth day of
December current I delivered to Mr. George Peat
Collector for the foresaid County of Kinross an Exact
Duplicate of the foregoing Survey which contained
my oath that the above named Mr. James Steadman
was duly Served with a Requisition & Notice whereby
he was to be Charged with the duty hereby Certified
to be due by him
John Boyd Surveyor
Linlithgow 30 December
1797

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 14 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/7/14

This volume contains information on the cart tax collected from the counties of Aberdeenshire, Ayrshire, Argyll, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Cromarty, Clackmannanshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian, Fife, Forfarshire (Angus), Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Morayshire (Elgin), Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Stirlingshire, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) and Wigtownshire in 1797-1798.

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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