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I Charles Robb Assessor aforesaid do hereby certifye that upon Carefull
Examination of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties I find that they amount
in whole to the Sum of three hundred and thirty four pounds ten shillings
Sterling And that upon the Twenty Eight day of december I delivered
Mr Charles Mitchell at the Hill Collector for the Shire aforesaid an Exact
duplicate of the above account duly Examined and compeard with the
foregoing which Contained my Oath that Notices were Left with the Several
Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of the dates Annexed to their
Respective Names they were to Be charged with the Sums hereby
Certifyed to Be due from them
Charles Robb Assessor

Carriage & Horse Tax
Shire of Fife
Amount £334.10.0 Sterg [Sterling]

E326/9/12
No13

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 12 - Counties (A-K) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/12

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 5th of April 1789 until the 5th of April 1790.

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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