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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 9 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/7/9

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Linlithgow Town CART TAX. Survey Continued

I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon
Carefull Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties
Find they Amount in whole to the sum of Four pounds
four shillings Sterling And that upon the fifth day of
January Current I delivered to Mr William Napier Collector
of the said Borough of Linlithgow an Exact Dupplicate
of the foregoing Survey which contained my Oath that
severall persons before named were duly served with Notices
and Requisitions whereby they were to be Charged with
the sums hereby Certified to be due by them.

James Watsone Surveyor
Linlithgow 12th January 1790

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Cart tax - Volume 9 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/7/9

This volume contains information on the cart tax collected from the burghs of Aberdeen, Arbroath, Annan, Ayr, Anstruther, Banff, Bervie, Brechin, Crail, Culross, Campbeltown, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dunbar, Dunfermline, Dumfries, Dundee, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forres, Forfar, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverkeithing, Inverness, Inverary, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcaldy, Kilrenny, Kinghorn, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, Nairn, New Galloway, North Berwick, Perth, Pittenweem, Peebles, Queensferry, Rothesay, Renfrew, Rutherglen, Sanquhar, Selkirk, St Andrews, Stranraer, and Stirling 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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