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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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Parishes Collected for a proof of the foregoing Survey

I Duncan MacNuier Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful
examination of the foregoing several rates & Dutys I find they amount to
Eighty five pounds ten shillings, & that upon the 22d March 1789 I delivered
to Donald Campbell Esqr. Collr [Collector] of the said dutys for the shire aforesaid an
exact Duplicate of the above Accompt duly examined and compared
with the foregoing which contained my oaththat requisitions went
to the whole foregoing persons or left at their dwelling houses of
receive dates aforesd [aforesaid], and that the above Accompt was up from the Returns
made to me in consequence thereof and from the best information I
could otherwise obtain. Duncan MacNuier

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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