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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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Royal Burgh of Irvine
From 5th July 1789 to 5th April 1790 Robert Aiken Surveyor

Proof -- Proof
3 Horses at 7/6d [£0.7.6] each yearly for 9 months is £0.16.10 1/2

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify That upon
careful examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties, I find they
amount to Sixteen Shillings and ten pence halfpenny Sterling
And that upon the Seventeenth Day of March Current I delivered
to Mr John Watt principal Collector of said Duties for said Burgh
an exact Duplicate of, and Duly examined and compared with the
foregoing Account, which contained my Oath, That Notification was
delivered or left of the date foresaid, and that the Rates charged on said
Account were just and true to the best of my Skill and Knowledge
and to the best of my beleif in person liable to be charged was omitted
[signed] Robert Aiken Surveyor

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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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