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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 in the Burgh of Forfar for one
[year] commencing the 5th April 1786 & ending the 5th April 1787 by William Greig Surveyor

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful
examination of the foregoing duties I find the amount in whole to
Seven Pounds Sterling and that upon the --- day of March 1787
I delivered Archibald Thornton Collector of the said duties for the Burgh
aforesaid an exact duplicate 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 day of April 1786 and that the said accounts
or surveys is made out from the lists returned to me and from the best infor-
mation 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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