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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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1 2 Wheeld Cariage £2.12.6 is £2.12.6
10 4 Wheeld Cariage £5.5.0 is £52.10.0
£55.2.6

I William Brunton Surveyor aforsaid do hereby Certify
thath upon Careful examination of the forgoing Several Rates
& Duties I sent they amount in whole to £55.2.6 Stg. [Sterling] & that Upon
the 18 March 1786 I Sent by post to Alexander Gordon Collector of the
said Duties for the Shire aforsaid an exact Duplicate of above act.[account]
duly examined & Compared with the foregoing and I do make
Oath that the above is a just List Returned by the Several
Inhabitants when requisitions were made of the Several
Dates aforesaid
William Brunton


Wheel Carriage
Tax in the Stewartry
of Kirkubright
from 5 of July 1785
to 5 of April 1786
for the Office

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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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