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

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Survey of the Horse Tax, per 37 Geo.111. Cap. 108. in the Burgh of Newgalloway

I David Mcmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon
careful examination of the foregoing several Rates & Duties I find they
amount in whole to the sum of Two pound five shillings &
ten pence eight tenths Sterling; and that upon the twenty sixth day of January
one thousand seven hundred & ninety eight years I delivered to Mr
John Murray Junr. [Junior] Newgalloway Coll. [Collector] of the said Duties for the
Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the foregoing which
contained my oath that Requisition or Notices were delivered to or left
for the several foregoing Persons at their dwelling places of the dates foresaid
and the charge made out from their returns or my best Information.
[signed] David Mcmillan Surveyor


Survey of the Horse Tax
per 37 Geo. III. Cap. 108
in the Burgh of Newgalloway
From the 5th Day of July
1797 to the 5th Day of
April 1798

£2.5.10.8

Ex per GS [Examined by General Surveyor]

E326/10/13
No.42

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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