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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 Burgh [of]
Whithorn from the 5th. April 1789 to the 5th April 1790 by Anthony Macmillan [Surveyor]

Proof 4 Horses at 10/- [£0.10.0] Is £2.0.0
£2.0.0 Total

I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify That
upon careful examination of the foregoing Rates & Duties I
find they amount in whole to the sum of Two Pounds S [Sterling]
and that upon the sixth day of March one thousa [thousand seven]
hundred & ninety years I delivered to Mr William [--]
Collr. [Collector] of the s [said] duties for the Burgh afor [aforesaid]
[an exact] Duplicat of the foregoing which contain [contained my]
Oath that requisitions were delivered to or left f [for the]
said Several Parsons at their dwelling places of [the]
dates annexed to their respective names that we [were]
to be charged with the Sums hereby certified to be
due from [them]
[signed] Anthony Macmillan

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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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