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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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Kinross County Survey Continued


Proof
2. Private Carriages @£8.0.0 each £16.0.0
7. Publick Carriages @£7.0.0 each £49.0.0
2. Two wheel Carriages @ £3.10.0 each £7.0.0
£72.0.0
To the 10pct [per cent] thereon £7.4.0
Totall £79.4.0

I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that
upon carefull examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties
find they amount in whole to the sum of Seventy nine
pounds four shillings Ster. [Sterling] And that upon the fourteenth
day of October last I delivered to Mr George Peat 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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