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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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Survey continued
[Page] 138

10 at 3/9 [£0.3.9] £1.17.6
16 at 5/7 1/2 [£0.5.7 1/2] £4.10.0
9 at 7/6 [£0.7.6] £3.7.6
£9.15.0

I John Barclay Surveyor Aforesaid, do hereby certify, That upon careful
examination of the foregoing Rates & Duties, I find they Amount in
whole to Nine pound, fifteen shillings and that upon
the ninth day of December current, I returned to Roderick McKenzie of
Scots burn Collector of the said duties for the Shire Aforesaid, An
exact Duplicate of the Above Acct. [Account] duly examind & compared with
the foregoing, which containd my Oath that that the Above Acct. [Account]
containd the Number of Horses returnd to me & were kept or used
by the different Masters or Mistress' According to the best of my
knowledge or information
John Barclay asst. [assistant] Surveyor



A Survey of the
Additional duties
Arisen on Horses
in the Shire of
Ross for the year
ending 5th April
1790
E326/9/15
No 26
Exd. [Examined]

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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