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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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I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing
Duties find they amount to five pounds Sixteen Shillings and that
upon the 26th day of January 1788 I delivered Alexander Gordon Esqr Collector of the said duties
for the Shire aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above Accounts as will Appear from
.. hereunto fixed, duly examined and Compared with the foregoing, which contained my
Oath that nottices were left with the Several persons before named, or at their dwellinghouses
of the dates annexed to their respective names, requiring them within fourteen days to give in
a list of their Carts retained or employed by them from the fifth day of April 1786 to the fifth
day of April 1787, and that the said Account or Survey is made out from the lists returned to me,
and from the best information I could procure of the Carts of those who neglected or refused to give
in a list thereof interms of the notices left with them as aforesaid.
William Greig Surveyor.

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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