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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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34 horses at 3/9 [£0.3.9] each is £6.7.6
49 horses at 5/7 1/2 [£0.5.7 1/2] each is £13.15.7 1/2
32 horses at 7/6 [£0.7.6] each is £12.0.0 £32.3.1 1/2 prooff

I Neil McInnes Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination
foregoing rates & duties They amount in whole to Thirty two pound three shillings [one]
penny half penny sterling And I do make oath that Requisitions were left or --
with the whole foregoing Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of the [respective]
dates aforesaid to return their respective lists as therein required And which
are Charged to the rates & duties set against their several names
Neil McInnes Surveyor

Sworn at Aberdeen 4 January 1790
before George Auldjo J.P [Justice of the Peace]

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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