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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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1511 Horses @ 2/3 Each is £169.199
20 per Cent on 1511 Horses 37G3 £33.19.11 4/10
[Total] £203.19.8 4/10
We John Rose Surveyor and Alexander MacRae Assistant Aforesaid Do hereby
Certify that upon Careful Examination We find the foregoing Duties amount
to Two Hundred and three pounds Nineteen Shillings and Eight pence
four tenths Sterling and We hereby make oaths each for himself That the
foregoing Inhabitants are charged most parts from Inspection and others from
Petitions and the best Information
[signed] John Rose Surveyor
Alex [Alexander] MacRae Asst [Assistant]
John Fraser J.P. [Justice of the Peace]
Sworn before me at Nairn
the eight day of January 1798

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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