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

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Dysart B. [Burgh] CART TAX. endg [ending] 5 Apl [April] 1789
By Charles Robb Survr. [Surveyor]

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19 Carts at £0.2.0 Each Is £1.18.0

I Charles Robb Assessor aforesaed do hireby certify that upon careful Examination
of the foregoing Several rates and Duties I find they Amount in whole to the Sum
of One pound Eighteen Shillings Sterlling and that upon the Twenty forth day of
November I delivered to John Jameson Collector for the Burgh aforesaid an Exact
Duplicat of the above Account duly Examened and Compared with the foregoing which
Contaened My Oath that Notices were left with the Several Inhabetants or at their
Dwelling houses of the dates Annexed to their respective Names that they were
to be Charged with the Sums hireby certefied to be due from them

Charles Robb Assessor

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

This volume contains information on the cart tax collected from the burghs of Aberdeen, Arbroath, Annan, Ayr, Anstruther, Banff, Bervie, Brechin, Burntisland, Crail, Culross, Campbeltown, Dumbarton, Dunfermline, Dysart, Dumfries, Dundee, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forres, Forfar, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverkeithing, Inverness, Inverary, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcaldy, Kilrenny, Kinghorn, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Perth, Pittenweem, Peebles, Queensferry, Rothesay, Renfrew, Rutherglen, Selkirk, St Andrews, and Stirling 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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