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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] 147
3rd
Linlithgow County Survey Continued

Prooff
4 Carriages.................at £3.10.0 Each is ............£14.0.0
9 Public Carriages.. .....at £7.0.0 Each is .............£63.0.0
20 Private Carriages.... at £8.0.0 Each is ............£160.0.0
3 Private Carriages.......at £9.0.0 Each is............. £27.0.0
4 Private Carriages.......at £10.0.0 Each is............£40.0.0
£304.0.0
To the 10 p ct [per cent] thereon £30.8.0
Total £334.8.0

I James Watsone surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon careful Examination
of the foregoing Rates and duties I find they amount in whole to the sum of
Three hundred and thirty four Pounds Eight Shillings Sterling And
that upon the thirteenth day of October last I delivered to Mr James Taylor
Collector for the foresaid County an Exact Dupplicate of the foregoing
Survey which contained my oath that the several persons before named
were duly served with Requisitions and Notices whereby they were to be
charged with the several duties hereby certified to be due by them
James Watsone Surveyor
Linlithgow 2nd 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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