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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Caithness county - Volume 2, E106/8/2

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We the Under Subscribing Commissioners of Supply and Clerk of Supply for the County
of Caithness Do hereby Certify That what is contained upon this and the Fifteen preceeding
pages is a just true and exact Copy of the Book of Valuation of the said County, with
the Abstract thereof, as the same stood on the 1st day of May 1802 and continues at
the date of these presents, The whole amounting to the Sum of Thirty Seven Thousand
Two Hundred and Fifty Six Pounds Two Shillings and Ten pennies Scots money-
the said Copy having been compared in our presence, with the Original Book of Valuation
as revised approved of and confirmed in a General Meeting of the Commissioners of Supply
of the said County upon the 12th day of December 1798 years. In witness whereof we subscribe
these.
[Signed]
John Ross Clerk of Supply
J C Sutherland Coms [Commissioner]
B Williamson Coms [Commissioner
W Innes Coms [Commissioner]

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these presents upon this and the preceeding Page at Wick this Thirtieth day of
April One thousand Eight Hundred and Three Years
[Signed]
J C. Sutherland Coms [Commissioner]
B. Williamson Coms [ Commissioner]
W Innes. Coms [Commissioner]
John Ross Clerk of Supply

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Caithness county - Volume 2, E106/8/2

This volume contains land tax information from the parishes of Caithness in 1802. These parishes include Bower, Canisbay, Dunnet, Olrig, Latheron, Halkirk, Thurso, and Wick.

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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