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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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Dumfermline Town for Nine month
ADDITIONAL CARRIAGE AND RIDING HORSE TAX. from
5th July 1789 to 5th. April 1790 By Charles Robb Surveyor

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2 horses at 3/9 [£0.3.9] Each for 3/4 of a year Is £0.7.6

I Charles Robb Assesser aforsaed do hereby certify that upon careful Examination
of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties I find they Amount in whole to the Sum
of Seven Shillings and Six pence Sterlling and that upon the Twenty Second day
of March I delivered to James Blackwood Collector for the Burgh aforesaed
an Exact Duplicat of the Above Account duly Examened and Compared with
the foregoing which Contaned My Oath that Notices were left with the Several
Inhabitants or at their Dwelling houses of the dates Annexed to their Respective
Names that they were to be Charged with the Sums hereby certified to be dwe from
them
[signed] Charles Robb Assessor

Transcriber's notes

Columns have been added - one headed No of Inhabitants appears to give those listed sequential numbers rather than number in each household.

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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