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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 13 - Counties (L-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/13

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Stirling County Survey
Carriage and Horse Tax

[Signed] James Allan

I James Allan Surveyor aforesaid, do Certify, That upon carefull
Examination of the foregoing duties, I find they Amount in whole to
Ninety Five Pounds Ster. [Sterling] and that I delivered this day to Mr. Thomas
Wingate of Stirling Collector of the duties for the County aforesaid, an exact
duplicate 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 that they were to be charged with
the Sums hereby Certified to be due from them.
James Allan Surveyor
Alloa 8th. [Jul] 1790

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 13 - Counties (L-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/13

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the counties of Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Morayshire (Elgin and Forres), Nairnshire, Orkney, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland (lordship of Zetland), Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire), and Wigtownshire, 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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