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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 duties on Carriage & Riding Horses
in the Burgh of Arbroath for three Quarters of a year from
5 day of July 1789 to the 5th day of April 1790 by
Daniel Ross Surveyor

I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforsaid do hereby Sertify
that upon careful examination I find the Forego
-ing duties amount to the sum of Seven Shillings
and Six pence Sterling and that upon [--] day
of [--] I delivered to John Colvil Collr [Collector] of the
Burgh aforesaid of the said duties an exact
duplicate of this Accot. [Account] which contained my Oath
that the preceeding inhabitants were duly Served
with requisitions of the dates aforesaid and
that they are charged conformably to their
Several returns to me of the best information
I could procure

[signed] At Dundee 22d Jany [January] 1790 Daniel Ross Sury [Surveyor]

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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

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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