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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 3 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/7/3

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73 Carts with 2 wheels each & at 2/- [£0.2.0] each is £7.6.0 Sterling
I John Row Survr. [Surveyor] Aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination [of]
foregoing Rates & Duties they Amount in whole to Seven pounds six Shillings Ster. [Sterling]
& I do make Oath that Notices were left with the whole foregoing Inhabi [Inhabitants]
that they were to be Charged as above
[signed] John Row Surveyor
Mr Thomas Munro Collr. [Collector]

Cart Tax
Town of Inverness
Ending 5th April 1787

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 3 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/7/3

This volume contains information on the cart tax collected from the burghs of Aberdeen, Arbroath, Annan, Ayr, Banff, Berrie, Brechin, Campbeltown, Culross, Dunbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forres, Forfar, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverness, Inverary, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kirkcudbright, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Perth, Peebles, Queensferry, Renfrew, Rutherglen, Selkirk, Stirling, and Sanquhar in 1786-1787.

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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