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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 ADDITIONAL CARRIAGE AND RIDING HORSE TAX. Burgh
of Inverary for the Three-quarters from 5th July 1789 till 5th April 1790

I Duncan MacNuier Surveyor of the duties aforesaid do hereby certify
that upon careful examination of the foregoing Several rates and duties
I find they amount in whole to the Sum of Eleven Shillings and threepence
Sterling, And that upon the Sixteenth day of April JajvijC [Seventeen hundred] and Ninety
Years I delivered to Donald Campbell Esquire of Sonnachan Collector
of the said Taxes for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the
above Account duly examined and compared with the foregoing which
contained my Oath that requisitions were given to the whole foregoing
persons or left at their respective dwelling houses of the date prefixed
to their names And that the foregoing Survey was made out from the
returns made to me in consequence thereof.
[signed] Duncan MacNuier

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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