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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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I William Greig Surveyor do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing
duties I find they Amount in whole to Six Pounds Sterling And that upon the ....day of.....1790 I delivered
Alexander Garden Esqr Collector of the said duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the Above
Account (as will Appear from........) duly examined and compared with the foregoing which
contained my Oath that nottices were left with the several persons before named or at their dwelling
houses, of the dates Annexed to their respective names, requiring them within fourteen days to give in
a list of their Horses retained or employed by them from the fifth day of April 1788 to the fifth
day of April 1789, and that the said Account or Survey is made from the lists returned to
me, and from the best information I could procure of the Horses of those whose lists are defficient,
neglected, or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the Notices left with them as Aforesaid
William Greig 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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