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

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I Robert Flyter assistant Surveyor aforesaid Do
hereby Certify that upon carefull Examination
of the foregoing Duties I find they amount in
whole to the sum of Five Pounds Ten
Shillings Sterling that the preceeding Inhabitants
were duly served with Requisitions
that they are charged according to their Returns to
me or the best Information and that I
have transmitted to Mr Thomas Eddie
Collector of said Duties an Exact Duplicate
of the foregoing account
Robert Flyter asst. [assistant] Surveyor
Thomas Eadie Coll. [Collector]

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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