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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Carriage tax - Volume 5 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/8/5

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[Page] 153

Survey of the [Wheel Carriage Tax] in the Burgh [of Peebles]
from the 5 of April 1787 to the 5 of April 1788 by William Brunton


I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby [Certify that]
upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing taxs [I find they amount]
in whole to the sum [Fourteen] pounds Ster [sterling] and [that upon the --]
day of [-- 1788 ] I delivered to [John Hislop ? ]
Collecttor of said duty for the Burgh aforesaid an [ exact Duplicate of the ]
above duly compared which contained my oath [that Requisitions or Notices ]
were left with the forgoing persons that they were [to be charged ]
with the sums set against their several Name
William Brunton

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Carriage tax - Volume 5 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/8/5

This volume contains information about carriage tax paid in the counties of Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Bute, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian Haddingtonshire), Fife, Forfarshire (Angus), Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Moray (Elgin and Forres), Nairnshire, Orkney, Peebles-shire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland (lordship of Zetland), Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire), and Wigtownshire in 1787-1788.

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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