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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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I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find the
above dutys amount to the Sum of Two Hundred and Sixty pound three Shillings and that upon the
Twenty day of Octobor - I delivered to John Rutherford Collector of the dutys for the Shire
aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above which Contained my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants
were duly served with Requisitions of the dates foresaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver
or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose an attested list of all the Servants horses and
Carriages used and employed by them from the fifth day of Aprile Ninety one to the fifth day of Aprile
Ninety two as well as an Account of what Servants, horses and Carriages they might have and employ
any where Else and that the forgoing report was made up from their Several Attested lists or returns
to me from the best information I could procure or from my own Certain knowledge of their respective
Establishments.
William. Brunton

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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