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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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386 Horses @ Sh 2.3 Each is £43.8.6
£43.8.6 @ 20 for Cont Each is £8.13.8.4
Sum Total £52.2.2.4
I William Brunton Surveyor aforsaid do hereby certify that upon carefull
examination of the forgoing duties. I find they amount to Fifty two pound two
Shillings twopence and four tenths. And that upon the ____ day of____
I delivered to _____________ Collector of these duties for the there aforesaid an
exact duplicate of the above which contained my oath that the forgoing persons
were duly served with Requisitions of the forgoing dates requiring them within
Fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose
an attested list of all the Servants horses and Carriages used and employed by them
from the 5 of April 1797 to the 5 of April 1798 as well as an Account of what
Servants horses and carriages they might use and employ anywhere else
and that the forgoing Report was made up from their severall attested lists or
returns to me from the best information I could procure or from my own knowledge
of their respective Establishments.
[signed] William Burton

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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