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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] 93 -- 28 IRVINE

Survey of the Rates and Duties on Taxd. [Taxed] Carts within the Royal Burgh of Irvine
From 5th April 1797 to 5th April 1798 By Robert Aiken

Proof
1 Taxd. [Taxed] Cart at £0.10.0
10 per Cent per 31 geo.IIId £0.1.0
Total £0.11.0

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon
Careful Examination of the foregoing Rate and Duties I find they
Amount to eleven Shillings Sterling and that, (conform to this
Receipt) there was delivered to Mr. tom Templeton Collector
of said Duties an exact Duplicate of this Account, which con
tained my Oath, that Requisitions were delivered or left
and that the Rates and Duties charged in said Account
were just and true to the best of my Skill Knowledge and
Belief and no Person Omitted known to me, who ought to have
been charged
Robert Aiken

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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