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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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Survey (By David Hutcheson Surveyor of Dumbartonshire etc)
of Additional Carriage and Riding Horse Tax kept
in the Royal Burgh of Dumbarton from 5th April [1790]

Addl [Additional] duty on 2 horses at 3/9 [£0.3.9] is £0.7.6

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 Seven
shillings and sixpencesterling And that this day I
delivered to John McAulay Collector of said duties an exact
duplicate of the above account containing my oath that
Notices or requisitions were left with the whole foregoing
Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of the date
aforesaid that they were to be charged with the
sums hereby certifyed to be due from them
[signed] David Hutcheson

Given at Glasgow this
31st day Decemr [December] 1789

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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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