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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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A Survey of the WHEEL -CARRIAGE TAX. in the Burgh of Peebles
from the 5 of April 1794 to the 5 of April 1795 by William Brunton Surveyor

Proof
1 Carriage at £7.0.0 is £7.0.0
£7.0.0 at ten per Cent is £0.14.0
Sum Total £7.14.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid to hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the above
duties I find they amount to the Sum of Seven pounds fourteen Shillings and that upon the fourth day of
November 1794 I delivered to James Hall Collector of said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate
of the above which containd my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants were duly Served with Requisitions
of the dates foresaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling
for that purpose an Attested list of all the Servants Horses and Carriages used and employed by them
from the 5 of April 1794 to the 5 of April 1795 as well as an account of what Servants Horses and
Carriages they might use and employ any where Else and that the forging Report was made up from
their Several Attested lists or Returns from the best information I could procure or from my own
certain knowledge of their Respective Establishments.
William Brunton

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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