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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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Forfar CART TAX. for the year ending
5 April 1789 by Daniel Ross Surv. [Surveyor]
[Page] 53

I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby certify that
upon careful examination I find the foregoing duties
amount to the Sum of Sixteen Shillings Stg [Sterling] and
that upon the ..... day of .......... 1788 I delivd. [delivered]
to Patrick Barry Coll. [Collector] for the burgh aforesaid an
exact duplicate of this Accot. [Account] which contained my
oath that the preceding inhts. [inhabitants] were duly Served wt. [with]
requisitions of the date foresaid, and that they were
charged according to their Several returns to me & to
the best information I could procure Daniel Ross Survy [Surveyor]

Transcriber's notes

Date omitted in text by writer

2nd entry in names, possibly Joseph Fairbill as in Vol 9

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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