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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 4 - Counties (Lanark - Perth) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/10/4

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Proof 6170 Horses at 2/ each is £617
Totall ...........................................617

I Andrew Aitchison Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify That upon
carefull examination of the forgoing severale rates and duties find they
amount in wholle to the Sum of Six Hundred and Seventeen pounds
Sterling and I deliverd this day to Archibald Hamilton Esqr. Collector [Esqr.]
Collector of these duties an exact duplicate of this account duly
examined and compared which contained my Oath that the
foregoing Inhabitants were served with requisitions and that
they were charged according to their returns or to the best of my
knowledge and belief that they were liable in said duties
Glasgow 10th Januy. [January] 1798 [Signed] Andw. [Andrew] Aitchison
Exd. Pr. G.S. [Examined Per General Surveyor]

Transcriber's notes

Surveyor has repeated the words Esqr. Collector in his declaration.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 4 - Counties (Lanark - Perth) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/10/4

Volume 4 contains farm horse tax information on the following counties: Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Morayshire (Elginshire), Nairnshire, Orkney, Peeblesshire (Tweeddale), and Perthshire.

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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