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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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Inverkeithing CART TAX. endg [ending] of 5 April 1789
By Charles Robb Surv [Surveyor]


Prooff
11 Carts at £0.2.0 Each Is £1.2.0
3 Wagons at £0.4.0 Each Is £0.12.0
£1.14.0

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 Twelve Shillings Sterlling and that upon the Twenty fifth day of November
I delivered to John Killick Collector for the Burgh aforesaed an Exact Duplecat of the above
Account duly Examened and Compared with the foregoing which Contaned 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
certified 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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