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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Carriage tax - Volume 1 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/8/1

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Survey Continued

I Hugh MacFarquhar Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that
upon carefull examination of the foregoing Rates & Duties [I]
find they Amount to eighty one pound seven shillings & six
pence, and that upon the tenth day of this current Month of
February, I delivered to Roderick MacKenzie of Scots burn [an]
exact Duplicate of the preceeding Account duly examined & com[pared]
which containd my Oath that the lists containd the Nunber of
Carriages returned by the different Masters & Mistress's & was [due]
by them according to the best of my knowledge or information.
Hugh MacFarquhar Surveyor

A Survey
of the Rates & Duties
Arisen on wheel
Carriages in the
Shire of Ross
from 5th Jully 1785
to 5th April 1786
26
Ross shire

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Carriage tax - Volume 1 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/8/1

This volume contains information about carriage tax paid in the counties of Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Bute, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian Haddingtonshire), Fife, Forfarshire (Angus), Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Moray (Elgin and Forres), Nairnshire, Orkney, Peebles-shire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland (lordship of Zetland), Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire), and Wigtownshire in 1785-1786.

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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