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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Carriage tax - Volume 18 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/8/18

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I Robert Maughan Surveyor do hereby certify that upon careful examination
of the foregoing Rates and Duties. I find they amount in whole to One
Thousand one Hundred and Eighty six Pounds Eighteen Shillings Sterling
and that upon 28th day of February 1795 I delivered to Messrs
George and Daniel McQueen Collectors of said Duties for the City of
Edinburgh an exact duplicate of the foregoing Account duly examined
and compared which contained my certificate that requisitions were
left with the several Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of the
dates annexed to their respective names
Robert Maughan Surveyor

City of Edinburgh
4 & 2 Wheel Carriage Tax
from 1794 to 1795
Tax Office Duplicate
£1186.18.0

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Carriage tax - Volume 18 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/8/18

This volume contains information about carriage tax paid in the burghs of Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Anstruther Wester, Arbroath (Aberbrothock), Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Burntisland, Campbeltown, Crail, Cullen, Culross, Cupar, Dingwall, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dysart, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Fortrose and Rosemarkie, Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, Inverbervie (Bervie), Inverkeithing, Inverness, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kilrenny, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, Nairn, New Galloway, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Pittenweem, Queensferry (South Queensferry), Renfrew, Rothesay, Rutherglen, St. Andrews, Sanquhar, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, Whithorn, and Wigtown, in 1794-1795.

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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