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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 2 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/7/2

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(Cart Tax.) From the 10th Octr [October] 1785 to 5th April 1786
by John Veitch Surveyor

Proof
4 Carts at 1 [shilling] £0.4.0

I John Veitch Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon
careful examination of the foregoing several rates and duties
I find they amount in whole to four Shillings Sterling and
that upon the 17th day of March 1786 I transmitted to Alexander May
Collector of the said duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact dup
licate of the above account duly examined and compared with
the foregoing which contained my oath that requisitions were
left with the several Inhabitants or at their Dwelling houses of
the dates annexed to their respective names & that the asesments
were made from the answers sent me and now in my
posession
[signed] John Veitch Junr. [Junior] Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 2 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/7/2

This volume contains information on the cart tax collected from the burghs of Aberdeen, Arbroath, Annan, Ayr, Brechine, Campbeltown, Culross, Dunbar, Dundee, Forfar, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverary, Irvine, Kirkcudbright, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, North Berwick, Peebles, Rutherglen, Sanchor, Selkirk, Stirling, Whithorn, and Wigtown in 1785-1786.

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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