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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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BUTE 6 [Page] 31

Island of Bute
From 5th July 1789 to 5th April 1790 By Robert Aiken Surveyor

Prooff
1 Horse at 5/ [£0.5.0] pr [per] Year .. £0.3.9
Total £0.3.9

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify That
upon carefull examination of the foregoing Rates & Duties I find they
amount in whole to Three Shillings & nine pence Sterling; And that
upon the Thirteenth day of March Current I Caused to be delivered to Mr. Alexander
May principal Collector of said Duties for said Shire an exact
Duplicate of, and duly examined & compared with the foregoing
Accompt which contained my oath that Notifications were
delivered or left of the dates foresaid, and that the rates charged
in said Accot. [Accompt] were just & 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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