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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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26 Horses @ 3/9 [£0.3.9] £4.17.6
89 Horses @ 5/7d [£0.5.7] £25.0.7 1/2
31 Horses @ 7/6d [£0.7.6] £11.12.6
Total £41.10.7 1/2

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify
That upon careful examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I
find they Amount in whole to Forty one pounds ten Shillings
and four pence half penny Sterling and that upon the fifteenth
day of March Current I delivered to Mr Charles Shaw Depute
Collector at the office of John Montgomery and Bruce Campbell
Principal Collectors of said duties for said Shire , an Exact Duplicate
of, and duly examined & compared with the foregoing account, which
contained my Oath, that Notifications were delivered or left of
dates foresaid; and that the rates charged in said account were just
and true to the best of my skill and knowledge - and to the
best of my belief no person liable to be Charged was omitted.
Robert Aiken Surveyor

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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