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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Carriage tax - Volume 13 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/8/13

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A Survey of Wheel Carriage Tax arising in the County
of Nairn from the 5th April 1791 to the 5th April 1792 by Patrick Mcdonald

Proof 1 Private carriage at £8.0.0 per year is £8.0.0
2 two wheel carriages at £3.10.0 per year £7.0.0
Ten per cent on £15.0.0 £1.10.0
Total £16.10.0

I Patrick Mcdonald Surveyor do hereby Certify that upon carful examination of the foregoing
Rates And Duties I find they Amount to Sixteen pounds ten Shillings Sterling and
that I delivered to Duncan Campbell Coller. [Collector] of Said duties for the County of Nairn
an exact duplicate of the Above Acct [Account] examind and compard which Contained
my Oath that Requisitions were left with the Several Inhabitants and the
assessment made up from the lists And Answers in my possession
Patrick Mcdonald Survy. [Surveyor]
Sworn before me at Invess [Inverness] 8th Nov. [November] 1791
Thomas Young Bailie

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Carriage tax - Volume 13 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/8/13

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 1791-1792.

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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