Catalogue description ENTRY BOOKS OF COMMISSIONS OF APPOINTMENT OF RECEIVERS GENERAL OF LAND, WINDOW AND OTHER ASSESSED TAXES, AND WARRANTS OF APPOINTMENTS OF SURVEYORS OF WINDOW TAX AND FOR BILLS

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Title: ENTRY BOOKS OF COMMISSIONS OF APPOINTMENT OF RECEIVERS GENERAL OF LAND, WINDOW AND OTHER ASSESSED TAXES, AND WARRANTS OF APPOINTMENTS OF SURVEYORS OF WINDOW TAX AND FOR BILLS
Description:

Entry books in which are entered copies of five documents needed by the auditor of circuits 1-5 to make appropriate allowance on the accounts of the receivers generals of taxes.
Date: 1711-1832
Administrative / biographical background:

The auditors also audited accounts other than those related to the Crown lands. They were also responsible, for example, for the accounts of the receivers general of the land tax, window tax and other assessed taxes in the eighteenth century as shown here.

The receivers general of the land tax were appointed yearly and the receivers general of house duties (that is of window tax and the other eighteenth century taxes on dwellings) were appointed for longer periods than a year depending on the provision of tax legislation. It should be noted that the receivers for the land tax and for house duties were often the same individual for a particular county or part of a county.

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