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

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10 Craill 35

Report of the HORSE TAX, per 37 Geo. III. Cap. 108. within the Royalty
of Craill from 5 Jul 1797 to April 1798 By Patrick Plenderleath Surveyor

Proof 50 Horses @ 2/3 £0.2.3 £5.12.6
20 per Cent £1.2.6 Total £6.15.0

Pittenweem 13 February 1798 I Patrick Plenderleath surveyor aforesaid
do hereby Certify that upon Careful examination of the foresaid rates
and duties I find they amount to the sum of Six pounds fourteen
shillings Sterling and that I this day delivered to Mr Robert
Murray Collector for said Burgh a full duplicate of this Account
Containing my Oath that the preceding Inhabitants were charged
According to their own returns or the best Information, and that
they were liable to pay the sums set against their several names
[Signed] P Plenderleath 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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