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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 14 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/14

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Survey of the Carriage and Horse Tax in the Royalty of
Lauder from 5 April 1789 to 5 April 1790 by William Johnstone Surveyor.


I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull examination
I find the foregoing duties amount to Two Pounds ten shillings Ster[Sterling] and that
upon the 31 Decr [December] 1789 I delivered to Robert Romaines Collector of said duties an
exact duplicate of this Acct [Account] which contained my Oath that requisitions of
the above date were duely served to the foregoing Inhabitants And that they
were charged agreeable to their Returns or my knowledge and belief That they were
liable in said duties.
William Johnstone Surveyor.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 14 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/14

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the Scottish burghs of Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Anstruther Wester, 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, Stranraer, Tain, and Wigtown, 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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