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

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Kinross County Carriage and Horse Tax. Survey Contd [Continued]

1789
I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify
that upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing Rates
and Duties I find they amount in whole to the sum of
Ten Pounds Sterling And that upon the fifth day of
January Current I delivered to Mr George Peat Collector
for the said County of Kinross an Exact Dupplicate
of the foregoing Survey which contained my Oath that
the several persons before named were duly served
with Notices and Requisitions whereby they were to be
Charged with the sums hereby Certified to be due
by them
James Watsone Surveyor
Linlithgow 12 Janry [January] 1790

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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