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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 8 - Counties (Banff - Dunbarton) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/10/8

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HORSE TAX, per 37 Geo. III. Cap. 108
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I Alexander Connell Surveyor do hereby certify that upon careful examination I find the foregoing duties amount to One Hundred and Fourtyone pounds Seven Shillings and five pence Sterling and I do further certify that this day I delivered to Thomas Ewing Collector of said duties a duplicate of the foregoing Account duely compared which contained an Oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were served with requisitions and they are charged the sums to their names severaly set either agreeable to their return or the best of my knowledge and belief that by law they are liable therein
Dumbarton 27th July 1798
Alexr Connell [signed]

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 8 - Counties (Banff - Dunbarton) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/10/8

Volume 8 contains farm horse tax information on the following counties: Banffshire, Berwickshire, Buteshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Dumfriesshire, Cromary, and Dunbartonshire.

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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