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

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Linlithgow Borough Horse Tax, per 37 Geo. 111. Cap. 108. Survey Continued

1797 I James Watson Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing Rates & Duties I find they amount in whole to the sum of Ten pounds eighteen shillings eight pence four tenths Stg. [Sterling] And that upon the Eight day of November last I delivered to Mr William Napier Collector for the foresaid Borough of Linlithgow an exact Duplicate of the foregoing Survey which contained my Oath that the several persons before named were duly served with Requisitions & Notices whereby they were to be charged with the several Duties hereby certified to be due by them

Linlithgow 5 December 1797 James Watson 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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