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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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Supplement to the Survey made by David Hutcheson, Surveyor
of ADDITIONAL CARRIAGE AND RIDING HORSE TAX. for
Dumbartonshire in 1789


I David Hutcheson Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon
carefull Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties find they
amount in whole to the sum of one pound four shillings & four
pence halfpenny sterling – And that I delivered to Thomas Ewing
Collector of said duties an Exact Duplicate of the above account
which contained my oath that notices were left wt [with] the whole
foregoing Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of dates [aforesaid]
that they were to be charged with the sums hereby certifyed
to be due from them David Hutcheson
Given at Glasgow this
25 day of Decemr [December] 1790

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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