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

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I William Laidlaw Surveyor aforesaid hereby Certify that upon careful Examination I find the foregoing duties amount to the Sum of Three pounds eighteen shillings and three pence six tenths of a penny Sterling and that I delivered to the Collector of said Duties an Exact Duplicate hereof, which contains an Oath that the persons before named were duly served with Requisitions and that they are charged agreeably to their Returns, or according to my knowledge and belief that they were liable in said Duties
[Signed] William Laidlaw

Survey of the Additional
Work Horse Tax
in the Burgh of Sanquhar
Ending 5 April 1798.

£3.18.3.6
Office Copy
Compd. [Compared]

Exd. pr.G.S.

E326/10/13, No 59

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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