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I William Hogg Surveyor of Taxes Do Hereby Certify that upon
Carefull Examination of the Foregoing Account of Duty on Carriage
and Saddle Horses in the County of Berwick I find they Amount to
One Hundred & Sixty One Pounds Sterling. And that upon the
1st of December 1785 I delivered to Mr David Renton Collector of the
Dutys for said County an Exact Duplicate of the Foregoing
duly Examined & Compared. And which Contained my Oath that
the Foregoeing Inhabitants were duely Served with Requisitions of the
Dates herein Mentioned. And the Dutys Charged them were Just & legal
being from their own Answers and undoubted Certainty of their having
Retained Horses during the Period fixt in the Requisitions.
Will Hogg Surveyor.



Berwick Shire
E326/9/1

No. 5


Survey
of
Horses in the County of
Berwick
From 10th October 1785 to 5th April 1786
by
Will Hogg Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 1 - Counties (A-K) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/1

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the counties of Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Bute, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, Haddingtonshire (East Lothian), Fife, Forfarshire (Angus), Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, and Kirkcudbrightshire, between the 10th of October 1785 until the 5th of April 1786.

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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