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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 Montrose
[for ] the Year commencing 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 examination
of the foregoing duties I find they amount in whole to Eighty four Pounds Sterling and that
upon the -- day of March 1787 I delivered Mr Alexander Morrison Collector of the said duties for
the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above account as will appear from
---- ) duly examined and compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath
that nottices were left with the several person 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 of April
1785 to the fifth day of April 1786 and that the said account or 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 a list 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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