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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 17 - Counties (A-K) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/17

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129 horses at £0.10.0 each is £64.10.0
10 horses at £0.15.0 each is £7.10.0
20 horses £0.17.6 each is £17.10.0
5 horses £1.0.0 each is £5.0.0
164 £94.10.0 Proof

I David Hutcheson Surveyor aforesaid do hereby
certify that upon carefull Examination of the foregoing several Rates
and Duties find they amount to Ninty four pounds &
ten shillings Sterling and that I have delivered to Thomas
Ewing Collector of the said duties for Dumbartonshire an exact Duplicate
of the above Accounts which contained my oath that notices or
Requisitions were left with the whole foregoing Inhabitants or
at their Dwelling houses of the dates aforesaid that they
were to be Charged with the sums hereby certified to be due
by them
David Hutcheson
Sworn at Glasgow
before me 20 day
of December 1790
Andrew Houston J:P: [Justice of the Peace]

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 17 - Counties (A-K) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/17

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the counties of Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Bute, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, Haddingtonshire (East Lothian), Fife, Forfarshire (Angus), Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, and Kirkcudbrightshire, between the 5th of April 1790 until the 5th of April 1791.

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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