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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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A Supplement of Wheel Carriages not used since the 5th of April 1788
charged by the orders of the Inspectors General by William Mure Surveyor
upon the 29th & 30th of December 1788

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Four Carriages with 4 wheels each at £7.0.0 is £28.0.0
One Carriage with 2 wheels at £3.10.0 is £3.10.0
Grand Total £31.10.0


I William Mure Surveyor Aforesaid, do hereby Certify that, upon Carefull Examination
of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties, I find they amount, in whole, to
Thirty one pounds ten Shillings Sterling, and that, upon the ----
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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