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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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I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing Severall duties
I find they amount in whole to One hundred and Nineteen pounds Sterling, and that upon the ........ day of
--- 1789 delivered Alexander Garden Esqr. Collector of the said Duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact
duplicate of the above Account or Survey on the other page hereof as will Appear from ---- here until
fixed ) duly examined and compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath, that notices were [left]
with the Several persons before named or 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 and employed by
them from the 5th. day of April 1787, to the 5th day of April 1788 and that the Said Account or Survey [was]
made out from the lists returned to me, and from the best information I could procure of the Carriages, of those
whose lists are deficient also of others who neglected or refused to return a list of thereof in terms of the notices [left]
with them as aforesaid.

William Greig Surveyor

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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