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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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39 Carts of 2 Wheels each @ 2/ [£0.2.0] -- £3.18.0

I Duncan Mac Nuier Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon car [careful]
examination of the foregoing several Rates & dutys I find they ammo [ammount]
to three pounds Eighteen Shills. [Shillings] & that upon the 22nd April 1789 [I de]
livered to Donald Campbell Esqr. Collector of the sd [said] Duties for the Shire [afore]
said an exact Duplicate of the above Account duly examined [and]
Compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath that
notifications were given to the several forenamed persons or left at [their]
dwelling houses of the respective dates aforesaid And that the ab [above]
Survey was made out from the Returns made to me in
Consequence thereof
[signed] Duncan Mac Nuier

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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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