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

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Linlithgow Borough HORSE TAX, per 36 Geo. III. Cap. xv. Survey continued
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1797 I James Watson surveyor aforesaid do hereby
Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing
Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole to the
sum of Eight pounds two shillings stg [sterling] And that
upon the Eight day of November last I delivered to
Mr William Napier Collector for the said Borough of
Linlithgow an exact Dupplicate of the foregoing Survey
which contained my Oath that the several persons
beforenamed were duly served with requisitions & Notices
whereby there were to be charged with the severall
duties hereby certified to be due by them
Linlithgow 5 Dec 1797 James Watson 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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