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

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I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon Careful Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they Amount by proof to Twenty five Pounds Eighteen Shillings and four pence Eight tenths Sterling And that conform to his Receipt I delivered to Mr Thomas McClelland Collector of said Duties an exact duplicate of this Account which contained my Oath that Requisitions were delivered or left and that the Rates and Duties Charged in said Account were just and true to the best of my Skill knowledge and belief, And no Person known to me, omitted who ought to have been Charged.
[Signed] Robert Aiken.


Addl. [Additional]
per 37th George III. Cap 108
Survey
Of the Rates and Duties on
Husbandry Horses within
The Royal Burgh of Air
From 5th. July 1797 to the 5th. April
1798
By Robert Aiken
Surveyor General Copy
Compared & Completed by
RA [Robert Aiken]
Ex per GS [Examined by General Surveyor]
E326/10/13
No. 6

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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