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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Carriage tax - Volume 9 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/8/9

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[Page] 122
Survey Continued
Additional Wheel Carriage Tax

I John Barclay Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby certify that upon
careful examination of the foregoing Acct. [Account] I find the Rates and [Duties]
Amount to Eight pounds five Shillings, and that upon the [tenth]
of December current I delivered to Roderick McKenzie of Scots burn
Collector of Said Duties for the Shire Aforesaid An exact Duplicate
of the preceding Acct. [Account] duly examined & compared with the foregoing
which contained my Oath that the foregoing Acct. [Account] contained
the Number of Carriages kept or employed by the Several Masters or Mistresses
According to the best of my knowledge or information
John Barclay Assist. [Assistant] Surveyor
Tain 21st Decr. [December] 1789

A Survey of the
Additional Duties
on wheel Carriages
Arisin in the Shire
of Ross for the Year
ending 5th April 1790

75

Exd. [Examined]
Shire of Ross

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Carriage tax - Volume 9 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/8/9

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 1789-1790.

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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