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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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Survey Continued
234 HORSE TAX, per Geo. III. Cap. xv. £21.14.0
Proof 217 Horses @ 2/-
I Robert Flyter assistant Surveyor aforesaid Do hererby Certify that upon
Carefull Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I Find they ammount
in whole to the sum of Twenty one Pounds Fourteen Shillings Sterling
that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions
that they are Charged according to their Returns to me or to the best
Information and that I have transmitted to Mr Duncan
Campbell Collector of said Duties an Exact Duplicate of the
foregoing Report Robt Flyter Asst Surveyor

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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