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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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Report CART TAX. Ending 5th April 1790
By Charles Robb Surveyor

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11 Carts at £.. 2/ [£0.2.0] Each is £1.2.0
3 Waggons at 4/ [£0.4.0] Each is £0.12.0
£1.14.0

I Charles Robb Assessor aforesaed do hereby certefy that upon careful Examination
of the foregoing Several rates and Duties I find they Amount in whole to the Sum
of One pound Fourteen Shillings Sterlling and that upon the Seventeenth day
of December I delivered to John Killick Collictor for the Burgh aforesaed
an Exact Duplecat of the Above Account duly Examened and Compared with the
foregoing which Contaened my Oath that Noteces were left with the Several Inhabet-
ants or at their Dwelling houses of the Dates Annexed to their respective Names
that they were to be Charged with the Sums hereby certified to be due from them

Charles Robb Assessor

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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