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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 & Duties on Wheel Carriages arisen in the Burgh of Aberbrothock for
Year commencing the 5th April 1786 & ending 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 Seventeen Pounds
Ten Shillings Ster [Sterling] and that upon the -- day of March 1787 I delivered Mr
John Colvell 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 inhabitants before named requiring them
within fourteen days to give in a list of their Carriages retained or employed
by them from the 5th of April 1785 to the 5 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 there of in terms of the notices 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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