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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 6 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/7/6

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I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing
Several Rates and duties I find they amount in whole to five pounds Sixteen Shillings Sterling
and that upon the [--] day of [--] 1789 I delivered Alexander Gordon Esqr Collector of the
Said Duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account (as will appear
from [--] thereunto fixed) duly examined and compared with the foregoing, which con=
=tained my Oath that Notices were left with the Several persons before named or at their dwell=
=ing houses of the respective dates aforesaid, requiring them to give in a list of the Carts retained
or employed by them from the fifth day of April 1787 to the 5th day of April 1788, and that the
foregoing 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 return lists thereof in terms of
the notices left with them as aforesaid
[signed] William Greig Surveyor

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 6 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/7/6

This volume contains information on the cart tax collected from the counties of Ayrshire, Argyll, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Clackmannanshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian, Fife, Forfarshire (Angus), Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Morayshire (Elgin), Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Stirlingshire, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) and Wigtownshire in 1788-1789.

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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