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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Carriage tax - Volume 4 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/8/4

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Survey of the Rates and Duties on Wheel Carriages Arisen in the Burgh of Dundee
year commenceing the 5th April 1786 and ending the 5th April 1787 by William Greig Surveyor

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull exam-
-ination of the foregoing duties I find they amount in whole to Fifty Two Pounds
Ten Shillings Sterling and that upon the -- day of March 1787 I delivered
Mr James Dick Collector of the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact drop
-licate of the above Account / as will appear from ---
duly examined and compaired with the foregoing, which contained my Oath
that nottices were left with the several persons before named or at their dwelling
houses of the dates annexed to their respective names requiring them within
fourteen days to give in alist of their Carriages retained or employed by
them from the fifth day of April 1785 to the fifth of April 1786 and that the
said account of survey is made out from the lists returned to me, and from
the best information I could procure of the Carriages of those who
neglected or refused to give in alist thereof in terms of the nottices left
with them as aforesaid William Greig Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Carriage tax - Volume 4 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/8/4

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 1786-1787.

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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