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

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32 Kilrenny 125

Report of the HORSE TAX, per 37 Geo. III. Cap. 108. Within the Royalty
of Kilrenny from 5 July 1797 to 5 April 1798. By Patrick Plenderleath Surveyor

Duty £3.3.0
20 per Cent £12.7.2
£3.15.7.2
Proof 28 Horses at 2/3 [£0.2.3] £3.3.0
20 per Cent £0.12.7.2
£3.15.7.2


Pittenweem 13 Feby. [February] 1798 I Patrick Plenderleath Surveyor of aforesaid
Do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing
Rates and duties I find they amount to Three pounds fifteen shillings
and seven pence two tenths Sterling And that I this day delivered
to Robert Pratt Coll. & Treas. [Collector & Treasurer] for said Burgh of
Kilrenny a full Duplicate of this Acct. [Account] containing my
Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly served with
Requisition of the dates foresaid And that they were charged
According to their Several Returns or the best information
And that they were liable to pay the Sums set agt. [against] their several
Names.
[signed] P Plenderleath Surveyor

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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