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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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Survey of the HORSE TAX, per 37 Geo. III Cap. 108 in the County of Fife
For three Quarters to 5th April 1798 By James Millar Surveyor

Transcriber's notes

This is Steedman in the other Fife volume, 2, but the second 'e' seems to have been overwritten with an 'a' here.

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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