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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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Lanark Shire Survey Continued


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20 Carriages with 2 Wheels each at £3.10.0 Each Carriage is £70.0.0
64 Carriages with 4 Wheels each at £7.0.0 Each carriage is £448.0.0
Grand Total £518.0.0


I William Mure Surveyor Aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that upon [Carefull]
Examination of the foregoing Several Rates & Duties I find they [amount]
in whole, to Five hundred & Eighteen pounds Sterling, and that upon
----- I delivered to William Porteous Esqr. Collector [of]
the said duties for the Shire Aforesaid an Exact duplicate of the [above]
Account duly Examined & Compared with the foregoing, which [Contained]
my Oath, that Notices were left with the Several Inhabitants
or at their dwelling houses, of the dates annexed to their [Respective]
names that they were to be Charged with the Sums hereby Certified [to]
be due from them , -
by me William Mure

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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