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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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Survey ADDITIONAL WHEEL CARRIAGE TAX Arising
In the County of Banff from the 5 July 1789 to 5 April 1790 By Patrick McDonald Surveyor

Prooff
10 Carriages @ £0.15.0 each for 3 Quarters £7.10.0
2 Carriages @ £1.10.0 each for 3 Quarters £3.0.0
£10.10.0

I Patrick McDonald Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon
carefull Examination of the foregoing duties I find they amount
to Ten pounds Ten shillings And I delivered to John Reid
Collector a true duplicate of the above which contained my
oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were duly served
with Requisitions and they are charged from their Returns
Patrick McDonald Surveyor

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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