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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 15 - Counties (A-R) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/15

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ADDITIONAL CARRIAGE AND RIDING HORSE TAX.

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6 Saddle and Carriage Horse Tax @ £0.3.9 Each is £1.2.6
12 Saddle and Carriage Horse Tax @ £0.5.71/2 Each is £3.7.6
9 Saddle and Carriage Horse tax @ £0.7.6 Each is £3.7.6
Sum Total £7.17.6

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull
examination of the foregoing Tax I find they amount to the Sum of Seven
Pounds Seventeen Shills. [Shillings] and Six pence and that upon the Seventeenth day of January
I delivered to John Robertson Collector of Said dutys for the Shire aforesaid a Copy of the
above duly compared which contained my Oath that Requisitions were left with the
foregoing persons that they were to be Charged with the Sums Set against
their Several Names.
William Brunton

A Survey of the Additional
Carriage and Saddle
Horse Tax in the Shire
of Peebles from the 5th.
Aprile 1789 to the 5 th. of
Aprile 1790

Exd. [Examined]
E326/9/15
No 23

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 15 - Counties (A-R) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/15

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, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Morayshire (Elgin and Forres), Nairnshire, Peebles-shire, Pertshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, and Roxburghshire, between the 5th of July 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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