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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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50 Carriages at £0.15.0 £37.10.0
3 Carriages at £1.10.0 £ 4.10.0
Total by proof £42.00.0

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify That
upon careful examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties, I find they
amount in whole to Fourty two pounds Sterling, And that upon the
Fifteenth Day of March Current I delivered to Mr Charles Shaw
Depute Collector at the office of John Montgomerie and Bruce Campbell
Esquires Principal Collectors of said Duties for said Shire, an exact
duplicate of, and duly examined and compared with the foregoing Account
which contained my Oath, That notifications were delivered or left of the
dates foresaid, And that the Rates Charged in said Account were just
and true to the best of my Skill and Knowledge; And to the best of my
beleif no person liable to be charged was omitted. -
Robert Aiken Surveyor

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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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