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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 5 - Counties (Renfrew - Wigtown) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/10/5

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386 Horses @ 2/- [£0.2.0] Each is £38.12.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful
examination I find the above duties amount to thirty eight pounds twelve [shillings]
and that upon [word missing] day of [word missing] I delivered to Gideon Heedham
Collector of these duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above duty
compared which contained my oath that the proceeding made by hand were duly served
with Requisition of the said above dates desiring them within fourteen days to deliver
or cause to be delivered to me upon calling that that purpose added list of all the
Horses used and employed by them from 5 April 1797 to 5 of April 1798
as well as an account of what horses they might use and employ any where else
and that the foregoing report was made up from their several Attested lists or returns
to me from the best information I could procure or from my own knowledge of the
respective Establishments [signed] William Brunton

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 5 - Counties (Renfrew - Wigtown) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/10/5

Volume 5 contains farm horse tax information on the following counties: Renfrewshire, Ross and Cromarty, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire (Ettrick Forest), Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire), and Wigtownshire.

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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