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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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Cart Tax of Forfar Shire continued

74 Carts of two Wheels each ...@ £0.2.0 each Cart is £7.8.0

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the
foregoing duties I find they Amount in whole to Seven Pounds Eight Shillings Sterling and that
upon the ... day of ... 1790 I delivered Major David Garden Esqr. Collector of the said duties for the
shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the Above Account (as will appear from
duly examined and compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath that Notices
were left with the several persons before named or at their dwelling houses, of the dates Annex
xed to their respective names, requiring them within fourteen days to give in a list of their Carts
retained or employed by them from the fifth day of April 1788 to the fifth day of April 1789
and that the said Account or Survey is made out from the lists returned to me, and from the
best information I could procure of the Carts of those whose lists are deficient, neglected or refu-
-sed to give in a list there of in terms of the Nottices left with them as Aforesaid.
William Greig Surveyor

Transcriber's notes

Dates are different to the dates on the Survey heading (1789-90)

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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