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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 9 - Counties (Angus (Forfar) - Inverness) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/10/9

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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 Four hundred and Twelve Pounds Five Shillings nine
pence and six Tenths Sterling and that upon the Thirtyeth day of October
I delivered to George Donaldson Deputy Collector of these Taxes an
exact duplicate of this account duly examined and compared which
contained my oath that Requisitions were sent to the foregoing Inhabitants
of the Preceeding dates 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 these Duties

signed John Menzies Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 9 - Counties (Angus (Forfar) - Inverness) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/10/9

Volume 9 contains farm horse tax information on the following counties: Angus (Forfarshire), East Lothian (Haddingtonshire), Fife, and Inverness-shire.

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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