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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 11 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/11

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KINGHORN
rn [Kinghorn] Burgh Carriage and Horse Tax. for one year End:[Ending]
[....] April 1789 By Charles Robb Surveyor
[Page] 107

Prooff
1 Carriage Horse at £0.10.0 Is £0.10.0
25 Saddle Horse at £0.10.0 Each Is £12.10.0
£13.0.0

[I] Charles Robb Assessor aforesaed do hereby certefy that upon careful Examination of
[the] foregoing Several Rates and Duties I find they Amount in whole to the Sum of
[Thir] teen pounds Sterlling and that upon the Twenty forth day of November I delivered to
[Alexander] Hutton Collector for the Burgh aforesaed an Exact Duplicat of the above Account
[duly] Examened and Compared with the foregoing which Contaened My Oath that Notices
[were] left with the Several Inhabetants or at their Dwelling houses of the dates Annexed
[to] their Respective Names that they were to be Charged with the Sums hereby certified to
[be] due from them
Charles Robb Assessor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 11 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/11

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the Scottish burghs of Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Arbroath (Aberdrothock), Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Burntisland, Campbeltown, Cullen, Culross, Cupar, Dingwall, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dysart, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Fortrose and Rosemarkie, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverary, Inverkeithing, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kilrenny, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Pittenweem, Queensferry (South Queensferry), Renfrew, Rothesay, Rutherglen, St Andrews, Sanquhar, Selkirk, Stirling, and Stranraer, between the 5th of April 1787 until the 5th of April 1788.

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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