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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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WHEEL- CARRIAGE TAX in Kinghorn
for the year ending 5th April 1795 By Peter Colvile Surveyor

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1 Carriage of 2 Wheels £3.10.0
6 carriages of 4 Wheels at £7.0.0 £42.0.0
10 pr. cent £4.11.0
£50.1.0

I Peter Colvile Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That the foregoing Duties
amount in whole to the Sum of Fifty Pound One shilling Sterling, and I hereby make Oath
That the foregoing Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions of the dates
foresaid and That they were charged according to their several Returns to me or from
the best information

Peter Colvile Surveyor
John Hutton Collector

At Ferryburn on the 8th
day of Novr. [November] 1794
before me Thomas Preston J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

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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