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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] 137
Survey Additional Wheel Carriage Tax Contd. [Continued]

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Three quarters of a year's duty of 17 Carriages @ £1.0.0 yearly is £12.15.0
Three quarters of a year's duty of 3 Carriages, one whereof at £1.0.0 & the others @ £2.0.0 each is £5.5.0
£18.0.0

I James Watson Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that
upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties,
I find they amount in whole to the sum of Eighteen
Pounds Sterling And that upon the fifth day of January
current I delivered to Mr. James Taylor Collector for
the said County of Linlithgow an Exact Duplicate
of the foregoing Survey which contained my Oath
that Severall Persons before named were duly
served with Notices and Requisitions whereby they
were to be Charged with the sums hereby Certified
to be due by them
James Watson Surveyor
Linlithgow 12 January 1790

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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