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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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[Page] 143
Wheel Carriage Tax
Survey Stirling County

Proof
15 Carriages with 2 Wheels @ £3.10.0 each is £52.10.0
8 Public Carriages @ £7.0.0 each is £56.0.0
29 Private Carriages @ £8.0.0 each is £232.0.0
2 Private Carriages @ £10.0.0 each is £20.0.0
Total is £360.10.0
10% on the amount is £36.1.0
Grand Total is £396.11.0

I James Allan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon
carefull Examination I find the foregoing duties Amount to the Sum of Three hundred and Ninety
six pounds and eleven shillings Sterling and that upon the Twenty fourth
I delivered to Mr. Thomas Wingate Collector of said duties an exact duplicate of
this Account duly Examined and Compared which contained my Oath that the
preceeding Inhabitants were duly served with requisitions, And that they were Charged
in conformity to their several Returns, now in my possession, or according to my knowledge
and belief that they were liable in said duties -
James Allan Surveyor

Alloa 26th, Nov. [November] 1791

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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