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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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Linlithgow County HORSE TAX, per 36 George III. Cap.xv. Survey Continued

I James Watson Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that
upon careful examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties
I find they amount in whole to the Sum of One hundred
and sixty five pounds sterling And that upon the Eight
day of November last I delivered to Mr. James Taylor Junr. [Junior
Collector for the foresaid County of Linlithgow an exact
Dupplicate of the foregoing Survey whiich contained my Oath
that the several persons before named were duly served
with Requisitions and Notices whereby they were to be
Charged with the several Duties hereby Certified to
be due by them.
James Watson Surveyor
Linlithgow 5th December
1797

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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