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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. Burgh of Wigton

1797

I David McMillan Surv. [Surveyor] aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon
careful examination of the foregoing several rates and Duties, I
find they amount in whole to the Sum of Four pounds and nine Shillings
& a penny two tenths Sterling; and that upon the
Eleventh day of January one thousand seven hundred & ninety eight years I delivered
to Mr John Hawthorn Writer Wigton 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 charges made from
their returns or my best Information [signed] David McMillan Surveyor


Survey of the Horse tax
per 37. Geo. 11. C. 108. in the
Burgh of Wigton
from the 5th day of July 1797
to the 5th day of April 1798.

£4.9.1.2

Exd. per G.S.

E326/10/13
No. 57

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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