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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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PITTENWEEM 44 [page] 129
Carriage and Horse Tax for one year Ending
5 April 1789 By Charles Robb Surveyor


Prooff
3 Saddle Horses at £0.10.0 Each Is £1.10.0

[I Charles Robb] Assessor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful Examination
[of the foregoing] Several Rates and Duties I find they Amount in whole to the sum of One
[pound ten] Shillings Sterling and that upon the Eighteenth day of November
[I delivered to William] Tosh Collector for the Burgh aforesaed an Exact Duplicat
[of the above account] duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing which Contained
[my Oath that notices] were left with the Several Inhabitants or at their Dwelling
[Houses of the date] annexed to their Respective Names that they were to be Charged
[the Sums hereby] certified to be due from them.
Charles Robb Assessor

Transcriber's notes

Page badly damaged and repaired with some of the names obscured. Names taken from other tax records

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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