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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 16 - Counties (S-W) and Burghs (A-K) (see 'More info' for county/burgh details), E326/9/16

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A Survey of the ADDITIONAL CARRIAGE AND RIDING HORSE TAX. in the Shire
[of] Selkirk from 5 of July 1789 to the 5 of Aprile 1790 by William Brunton Surveyor

[Written below Total] -- 23 -- 15 -- 4 -- 11

Proof
4 Saddle and Carriage Horse Tax @ 3 Sh [Shillings] 9 [pence] [£0.3.9] Each is £0.15.0
11 Saddle and Carriage Horse Tax @ £0.5.7½ Each is £3.1.10½
Sum Total -- £3.16.10 1/2

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull
examination of the forgoing Tax I find they amount in whole to the Sum of
Three Pounds Sixteen Shillings and Tence pence halfpenny and that upon
the Thirty day of December - I delivered to John Scott Collector of Said dutys
for the Shire aforesaid a Copy of the above duly compared which contained
my Oath that Requisitions were left with the forgoing persons that they were to be
charged with the Sums Sett against their Severall Names
[signed] William Brunton

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 16 - Counties (S-W) and Burghs (A-K) (see 'More info' for county/burgh details), E326/9/16

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the counties of Selkirkshire, Shetland (lordship of Zetland), Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire), and Wigtownshire, as well as the burghs of Aberdeen, Annan, Arbroath (Aberdrothock), Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Burntisland, Cullen, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dysart, Edinburgh, Forfar, Fortrose and Rosemarkie, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverary, Irvine, Kinghorn, and Kirkcaldy, 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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