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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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Edinburgh 8th Jany [January] 1789
John Taitt Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby Certify that upon care-
full examination of the foregoing, I find they amount in whole
to Forty two pounds ten Shillings Sterling, and that I this
day delivered to George Cranston Esqr at his Office Edinburgh,
Collector of said duties, an exact duplicate of the above Accompt
duly examined & compared with the foregoing, which certified
that Requisitions were left with the several Inhabitants, &
that they are Charged in Consequence of their own Returns
or by Notices of Charge left
John Taitt Surveyor

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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