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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 in the Burgh of Dysart from the 5th April 1789
to 5th April 1790 By Charles Robb. Surveyor

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful Examination
of the foregoing duties I find they amount in whole to Three pounds Ten Shillings
Sterlling and that upon the Seventeen day of November I delivered to David Swine
Collector of the saed duties for the Burgh aforesaed an Exact duplicat of the above Account
duly Examined and compared with the foregoing which Contained My Oath that Nottices
were left with the Several parsons befor named or at their dwelling houses of the dates
anexed to their Respective names Requiring them within fourteen dayes to give in a list
of their Carriage or Saddle horses Retained or Employed by them from the 5 day of April
1789 to the 5 day of April 1790 and that the saed Account or Survey is mead Out from the list
returned to me and from the Best Information I could procure of the Carrige or Saddle
horses of those whose lists ar deficiant Neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in termes
of the Nottices left with them as aforesaed
[signed] Charles Robb Surveyor

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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