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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Carriage tax - Volume 6 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/8/6

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Clackmanan County WHEEL CARRIAGE TAX. Survey Continued

I James Watson Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull
examination of the forgoing Rates and Duties I find they amount in
whole to the sum of Seventy seven pounds sterling And that upon
the tenth day of January current I delivered to William John Jameson
Collector for the said County an exact Dupplicate of the forgoing Survey
which contained my oath that the serverall persons beforenamed
were duly served with Requisitions and notices whereby they were to
be charged with the sums hereby certified to be due them
James Watson Surveyor.
Linlithgow 12 January 1789.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Carriage tax - Volume 6 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/8/6

This volume contains information about carriage tax paid in the counties of Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, 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 1788-1789.

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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