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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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Perth 15th February 1790 I Laurence Buchan Surveyor
aforesaid do hereby certify That upon careful Examination of the
foregoing duties I find they amount in Whole to Three pounds
four Shillings Strg. [Sterling] and this date I delivered to James Maxwell
Esqr Collector of the Said duties for the Shire aforesaid an Exact
Duplicate of the Above Account duly Examined and compared
the foregoing Notes were left with the Several Masters or at their
dwelling houses So as they might Send their returns
Laurence Buchan Surveyor.

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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