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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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Survey Continued

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391 Carts @ 2/- [£0.2.0 ] each is £39.2.0


I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify
That upon careful examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties
I find they amount in whole to Thirty Nine pounds two shillings
Sterling And that upon the Fifteenth day of March Current I
delivered to Mr Charles Shaw Depute Collector at the Office of John
Montgomerie and Bruce Campbell Esqrs principal Collectors of
said Duties for said Shire an exact Duplicate of, and duly [examined]
and compared with the forgoing Account, which contained my [Oath]
That notifications were delivered or left of the dates foresaid; And
[the Duties charged in said account were just and true to the best of]
my skill and knowledge and, to the best of belief no [person]
liable to be charged was omitted.
Robert Aiken 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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