An Act to provide for an Annual Return of Rates, Taxes, Tolls, and Dues levied for local purposes in Scotland.
WHEREAS rates, taxes, tolls, and dues to a large amount are levied for purposes of local government and improvements in Scotland, and it is proper that Parliament should be informed annually of all sums so levied, and the expenditure thereof: And whereas by the authority of Parliament returns of such receipts and expenditure are prepared annually for England and Ireland, but no provision has been made for the preparation of returns applicable to Scotland: