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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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Forfar Shire continued

In margin below Carriestown: [comp]ared

34 Carriages Single at 15/- each for 3 quarters of one year £25.10.0
2 Carriages Second ones at 30/- each for 3 quarters of one year £3.0.0 £28.10.0

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the
foregoing duties I find they amount in whole to Twenty Eight Pounds ten Shillings Sterling &
that upon the -- day of -- 1790 I delivered Major David Garden Esq. Collector of the said duties
for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the Above Account (as will Appear from ---
) duly examined and compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath that Nottices were
left with the severall persons before named or at their dwelling houses, of the dates Annexed to
their respective names, requiring them within fourteen days to give in a list of their Carriages
retained or employed by them from the fifth day of April 1788 to the fifth day of April 1789
and that the said Account or Survey is made out from the lists returned to me and from
the best information I could procure of the Carriages of those whose lists are deficient neglected
or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the notices left with them as aforesaid.
William Greig 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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