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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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Kinghorn B [Burgh] CART TAX. endg. [ending] 5 Apl [April] 1789
by Charles Robb Sur [Surveyor]

Prooff

16 Carts at £0.2.0 Each is £1.12.0

I Charles Robb Assessor aforesaed do hireby Certefy 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 forth day of November I delivered
to John Hutton Collector for the Burgh aforesaed 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 Inhabittants 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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