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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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Additional Wheel Carriage Tax
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I James Allan Surveyor aforesaid do Certify, That upon
carefull Examination of the foregoing several Rates and duties I find
they Amount in whole to Twenty Three Pounds Five Shillings Sterg. [Sterling]
and that I delivered this day to Mr. Thomas Wingate of Stirling Collector
of the said duties for the County aforesaid, an exact duplicate of the
above Account duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing which
contained my Oath that Notices were left with the several Inhabitants
or at their dwelling Houses, that they were to be charged with the
Sums hereby Certified to be due from them
James Allan Surveyor
at Alloa 8th.
[Feby February] 1790

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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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