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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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I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon
Careful Examination of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties I find
they Amount in whole to the Sum of Fourteen pounds Sterling
and that upon the Nineth day of November I delivered to
Andrew Gullen Collector for the Burgh aforesaid an exact Dupli-
cat of the Above Amount duly Examined and Compared with the
foregoing which Contained my Oath that Notices were left with
with the Several Inhabitants or at their Dwelling houses of the
Dates Annexed to their Respective Names that they were to be Charged
with the Sums hereby Certified to be due from them.

Charles Robb 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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