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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 Burgh of Kirkaldie
from 5th July 1789 to 5th. April 1791 by Charles Robb Survr [Surveyor]

Prooff
3 Horses at £0.3.9 Each for 3/4 of ayear Is £0.11.3
7 Horses at £0.7.6 Each for 3/4 of ayear Is £2.12.6
[Total] £3.3.9

I Charles Robb Assessor aforesaed do hireby certefy that upon careful Examination of
the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they Amount in whole to the Sum of Three
pounds Three Shillings and Neen pince Sterlling and that upon the Twenty first
day of December I delivered to William Drysdall Collector for the Burgh
aforesaed an Exact Duplicat of the above Account duly Examened and Compared
with the foregoing which Contaened My Oath that Noteces were left with the Several
Inhabetants or at their Dwelling houses of the dates Annexed to their Respective Names
that they were to be Charged with the Sums hereby certefied to be dwe from them

[signed] Charles Robb Assessor

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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