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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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Survey of the CART TAX. In Anstruther Wester
for one year to 5th. April 1790 By Charles Robb Surveyor

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5 Carts at £0.2.0 Each is £0.10.0

I Charles Robb Assessor aforesaed do hereby certefy that upon careful Examin
-ation of the foregoing Several rates and Duties I find they Amount in whole
to the Sum of Ten Shillings Sterlling and that upo[n] the Sixteenth
day of December I derevered to Andrew Melldrum Collector for the Burgh
aforesaed an Exact Duplecat of the Above Account duly Examened and Compared
with the foregoing which Contaened my Oath that Notices were left with the
Several Inhabetants or at their Dwelling houses of the Dates Annexed to their
respective Names that they were to be Charged with the Sums hereby certefied
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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