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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 12 - Counties (Ross and Cromarty - Wigtown) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/10/12

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3517 Horses at 2/3 each £395.13.3
Twenty per Cent thereon £79.2.7.8
Sum Total £474.15.10.8

I George Rodger Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that
upon careful Examination, I Find the foregoing duties amount
to the sum of Four hundred and seventy four pounds
fifteen shillings and ten pence, eight tenths Stirling and that
upon the twenty second day of January I Transmitted
to Mr John Rutherford Collector of these Duties an Exact
Duplicate of this Account containing my Oath that the preceding
Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions
of the duties therein contained. And that they were charged
according to their sworn Returns or the best Information
and they were liable to pay the sums against their respective
names [Signed] George Rodger, Surveyor
January 1798

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 12 - Counties (Ross and Cromarty - Wigtown) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/10/12

Volume 12 contains farm horse tax information on the following counties: Ross and Cromarty, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire (Ettrick Forest), Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire), Wigtownshire, and Ross.

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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