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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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I William Currie Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon
carefull Examination of the foregoing several rates and duties I find the whole
Amount to One hundred and Fifteen pounds ten Shillings Sterl.[Sterling] and that
upon the 21 day of Nov.[November] 1787 I delivered to Mr Hugh Maxwell Collr. [Collector] for the said
duties for the shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the foregoing which
contained my Oath that notices were Left with the several Inhabitants or at
their dwelling houses of the date annexed to their respective Names that
was to be Charg'd with the sums hereby Certified to be due from them
William Currie

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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