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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Dog tax - Volume 1 - Counties (A-K) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/11/1

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Survey of the Duty on Dogs Continued
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I James Millar Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that after careful examination
of the aforegoing Duties I find they amount to the Sum of Forty two
Pounds Eleven Shillings Sterling - - - - - And that upon the
Day of January 1798 I delivered to John Cheape Esq. Collector of said Duties an exact duplicate
of this Account of the dates aforesaid which contained my Oath that the foregoing
Inhabitants were served with Notices and that they are charged according to their own
Returns or the best Information I could obtain James Millar Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Dog tax - Volume 1 - Counties (A-K) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/11/1

This volume contains information on dog taxes paid in Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Buteshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian, Fife, Angus (Forfarshire), Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, and Kirkcudbrightshire.

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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