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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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The Horses in the Nineteen Division of the Royal Burgh of Glasgow Chargeable
with the additional duty collected in to one total by George Storie Surveyor

Prooff

34 Horses at 5/- [£0.5.0] each p [per] annum £8.10.0
22 Horses at 7/6 [£0.7.6] each p [per] annum £8.5.0
[Total] 56 -- £16.15.0

deduct for 34 one quarter of a year 1/3d [£0.1.3] £2.2.6
22 one quarter of a year 1/10 1/2 [£0.1.10 1/2] £2.1.3
£4.3.9
New Amount for 3/4 -- £12.11.3

I George Storie Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the
foregoing several Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole Twelve pounds eleven shillings
and three pence Sterling and that upon this Ninth - day of January One thousand
Seven hundred & Ninty I delivered to John Carlile Collector of the said duties for the Burgh
aforesaid an Exact duplicate of the above Accounts duly examined and compared with the foregoing
which contained 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 Certifyed to be due from them
[signed] George Storie

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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