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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 4 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/7/4

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Prooff 312 Carts with 2 Wheells @ £0.2.0 Each for One year is £31.4.0
12 Waggon with 4 Wheells @ £0.4.0 Each for One year is £2.8.0--£33.12.0

I Charles Robb Assessor Aforesaid Do hereby certifye That upon carefull
Examination of the foregoing Severall rates and duties I find they amount in
whole to the Sum of Thirty Three pounds and Twelve Shillings Sterling
And upon the Twenty Eight day of Novemr [November] I delivered to Charles Mitchell
Esqr residing at the Hill near Dumfermline Collector for the Shire aforesaid
an exact duplicate of the foregoing which contained my Oath that notices
were left with the Severall Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of the
dates Annexed to their respective names that they were to be charged with
the sums hereby certified to be due from them.
[signed] Charles Robb Assessor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 4 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/7/4

This volume contains information on the cart tax collected from the counties of Aberdeenshire, Ayrshire, Argyll, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Clackmannanshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian, Fife, Forfarshire (Angus), Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Morayshire (Elgin), Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Stirlingshire, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) and Wigtownshire in 1787-1788.

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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