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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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476 Carts at 2/ [£0.2.0] each is £47.12.0

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid, Do hereby Certify that
upon careful examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they
amount in whole to Forty seven pounds twelve shillings Sterling And that
upon the [--] day of December Current I delivered to Mr Charles Shaw
[Depute Collector] at the Offices of John Montgomery and Bruce Campbell Esqr pr [principal]
[Collectors of] said Duties for said Shire an exact Duplicate of and duly ex [examined]
[and compared with] the foregoing Account which contained my Oath that
Notifications were delivered or left of the dates foresaid, And that the Ra [Rates]
charged in said Account were just and true to the best of my skill [and]
knowledge, And to the best of my belief no person liable to be charged [was]
ommitted.
[signed] Rob Aiken 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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