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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 13 - Royal Burghs, E326/10/13

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I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon Careful Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties, I find they amount by Proof within, to four Pounds eleven shilling and nine pence six tenths Sterling and that, conform to this receipt, there was delivered to Mr William Templeton Collector of said Duties an exact Duplicate of this Account which contains my oath, that Requisitions were delivered or left, and that the Rates and Duties charged in said Account were just and true to the best of my Skill Knowledge and Belief, And no person omitted
known to me, who ought to have been charged.
(Signed) Robert Aiken


Additional
Survey
of the Rates and Duties on Husbandry
Horses within the Royal Burgh
of Irvine from 5th July 1797
To 5th April 1798 Per 37 Geo: III
By Robert Aiken


Surveyors General Copy
Compd. [Compared] & Completed By RA [Robert Aiken]

Ex per GS [Examined by General Surveyor]
E326/10/13
No.30

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 13 - Royal Burghs, E326/10/13

Volume 13 contains farm horse tax information for many of the royal burghs in Scotland.

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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