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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 Mure Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that, upon
Carefull Examination of the foregoing Several Rates & Duties, I find
they amount, in whole, to One hundred & Three pounds Twelve
Shillings Sterling and that, upon the 31s Decr [December] I delivered To
William Porteous Esqr Collector of the said Duties, for the
Shire aforesaid, an Exact Duplicate of the above Account, duely
Examined & Compared with the foregoing, which Contained my Oath,
that Notices were left with the or Several Inhabitants, 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 by me Will: Mure

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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