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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 8 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/7/8

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I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify
that upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing Rates and
Duties I find they amount in whole to the sum of
Two pounds two shillings Sterling And that upon the
fifth day of January current I delivered to Mr. George
Peat Collector for the said County of Kinross an
Exact Dupplicate of the foregoing Survey which
contained my Oath that the severall persons before named
were duly served with the Notices and Requisitions [whereby]
they were to be Charged with the sums hereby Certified
to be due by them
James Watsone Surveyor
Linlithgow 12' January 1790

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 8 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/7/8

This volume contains information on the cart tax collected from the counties of Aberdeenshire, 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 1789-1790.

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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