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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 Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination
of the foregoing Duties I find they amount in Whole to Three Hundred & Sixty Pounds
also the additional duty of 10 p Ct [per cent] thereon being Thirty Six Pounds Ster. [Sterling] and that
upon the [-] day of February 1792 I delivered to Major David Gardyne Middleton principall
Collector of the said Duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above [Account]
as will Appear from [-] duly examined and compared with the
foregoing which containd my Oath that Notices were left with the Several Persons
before named or at their dwelling Houses of the dates annexed to their respective
Names requiring them within fourteen days to give in a list of their Carriages
retained or employ'd by them from the 5th day of April 1790 to the 5th day of April 1791
and that the said account or Survey is made out from the lists returned
to me and from the best Information I could procure of the Carriages of those [whose]
Lists are deficient, neglected, or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the Notices
left with them as aforesaid.
William Greig Surveyor

Survey of the rates & duties
on two & four Wheeled Carrs.[Carriages] in
the Shire of Forfar for the year
ending 5th April 1792
p [per] William Greig Surveyor
Exd [Examined] GS [General Surveyor]
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Transcriber's notes

William Greig appears to have got the dates wrong in his declaration and has overwritten them with the correct ones.

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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