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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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Wheel Carriages Tax Forfar Shire Ending 5th April 1788

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the
foregoing Rates and duties I find they amount in whole to three hundred and four pounds and ten
shillings Sterling, and that upon the -- day of --- 1788 I delivered Major David
Gardyne Collector of the said Duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above account
(as will appear from --- hereunto fixed) duly examined and Compared with the fore-going
which contained my Oath that notices were left with the Several persons before named
at their dwelling houses of the dates annexed to their respective names, requiring them
within fourteen days to give in a list of their Carriages retained or employed by them from the
fifth day of April 1786 to the fifth day of April 1787, and that the said Account or Survey
made out form 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 notices left with them aforesaid.
William Greig Surveyor

Wheel Carriage Tax
Forfar Shire
Ending 5th April 1786
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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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