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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 6 - Royal Burghs, E326/10/6

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Proof 87 Horses @ 2/- [£0.2.0] each £8.14.0

I John Menzies Surveyor Do hereby Certify that upon carefull
examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find that they
amount on the whole to the sum of Eight Pounds Fourteen
Shillings Sterling and that upon the nineteenth day of
October I delivered to [name missing] Collector of these
duties an exact duplicate of this Account duly examined
and Compared which Contained my oath that the foregoing
Inhabitants were servd with Requisitions and that they
were charged the sums annexed to each of their names according
to the answers they made said Requisitions or according
to my knowledge and belief that they were liable in the said
Duties

[signed] John Menzies Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 6 - Royal Burghs, E326/10/6

Volume 6 contains farm horse tax information for many of the royal burghs in Scotland.

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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