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

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[Page] 92
10th

Proof 184 Saddle horses at 5/- [£0.5.0] ea [each] for ½ year is £46.0.0

I William Brunton Surveyor do hereby Certify
that upon careful Examination of the foregoing Several Ra [Rates]
and duties I find they amount in whole to £46.0.0 Sterl [Sterling]
And that upon the 18 of March :86 [1786] I sent by post to hugh M [Maxwell]
Collector of the said duties for the Shire aforesaid, an exact
duplicate of the above Acct. [Account] duly examined and comp [compared]
with the foregoing And I do make Oath that the above
is a just list returned by the Several Inhabitants when
Requisitions were made of the respective dates aforesaid.

[signed] William Brunton

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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