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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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Island of Bute
WHEEL-CARRIAGE TAX.
From 5th April 1791 to 5th April 1792 By Robert Aiken Surveyor

Prooff
1 Two Wheels Car. [Carriage] at £2.10.0 £3.10.0
10 pr ct [per cent] thereon £0.7.0
Total by proof £3.17.0

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon
Careful Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they
amount with ten per Cent thereon in whole to Three pounds Seventeen Shillings Sterling and that
upon the [-] day of [-] I caused deliver to Mr Alexander
May Collector of said duties for said County at his office an exact duplicate
of the foregoing account which contained my oath that notifications were
delivered or left of the dates foresaid and that the Rates charged in said
account were just and true to the best of my skill and knowledge, and to
the best of my belief no person liable to be charged is omitted.
Robert Aiken

Transcriber's notes

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Surveyor wrote £2.10.0 by mistake in Prooff.

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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