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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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I Hugh Richmond Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby certify, that upon carefull
examination of the foregoing Severall Rates Duties I find they amount
in whole to Three hundred Seventeen pounds twelve Shillings & Six pence
and that upon the Nineteenth day of December last I caused deliver to
John Durno Adt. [Advocate] Collector of these Duties for the Shire aforesaid
Exact Duplicate of the above Account duly Examine & compared
with the foregoing; And I do make oath that the above is a just List returned by the
Severall Inhabitants when Requisition were made of the duties
aforesaid by Hugh Richmond Surveyer

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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