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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 2 - Counties (Berwick - Fife) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/10/2

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I John Menzies Surveyor do hereby certify that upon carefull
examination of the foregoing duties I find that they amount to
the sum of Three hundred and Five Pounds Eight Shillings sterling
and that upon the Thirtyeth day of October I delivered to George
Donaldson Deputy Collector of these duties an exact duplicate of
this Account duly examined and compared which contained
my Oath that Requestions were sent to the foregoing inhabitants of the preceding dates
and that they were charged the sums annexed to each of their
names according to the answers they made said Requestions
or according to my knowledge and belief that they were liable
in these duties.
John Menzies Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 2 - Counties (Berwick - Fife) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/10/2

Volume 2 contains farm horse tax information on the following counties: Berwickshire, Buteshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Dumfriesshire, Cromary, Dunbartonshire, East Lothian (Haddingtonshire), and Fife.

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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