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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 St Andrews
for the Year Ending 5th. April 1795 By Peter Colvile Surveyor

Duty £18.10.0
10 Pr. [Per] Cents £1.17.0
£20.7.0

Proof 1 Carriage of 2 Wheels at £3.10.0
1 Public Carriage of 4 Wheels at £7.0.0
1 Private Carriage of 4 Wheels at £8.0.0.
10 pr. [per] Cents £1.17.0
£20.17.0

I Peter Colvile Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that the foregoing Duties
amount to the Sum of Twenty Pounds Seven Shillings 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

Andrew Gullen Collector

At Torryburn the 8th
day of Novr. [November] 1794 Years

Before me Charles 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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