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Volume contents
- 1 - 1790-1 counties , Lanarkshire
- 37 - 1790-1 counties , Midlothian
- 73 - 1790-1 counties , Moray
- 77 - 1790-1 counties , Nairnshire
- 79 - 1790-1 counties , Orkney
- 81 - 1790-1 counties , Peeblesshire
- 87 - 1790-1 counties , Perthshire
- 95 - 1790-1 counties , Renfrewshire
- 107 - 1790-1 counties , Ross-shire
- 111 - 1790-1 counties , Roxburghshire
- 123 - 1790-1 counties , Selkirkshire
- 127 - 1790-1 counties , Shetland
- 129 - 1790-1 counties , Stirlingshire
- 141 - 1790-1 counties , Sutherland
- 147 - 1790-1 counties , West Lothian
- 159 - 1790-1 counties , Wigtownshire
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[page] 121 (64)
This Certificate to be Copied over according to the form new duty
and the Articles Crossed on the Margin to be charged £2.5.0 in
-stead of £2.0.0
I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination
I find the above duties amount to the Sum of Two Hundred and Fortyeight pound fifteen Shillings
and that upon the -- day of -- I delivered to John Rutherford Collector of these
duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above which containd my Oath that
the preceeding Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions of the dates foresaid desiring them
within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose
an Attested list of all the Servants horses and Carriages used and employed by them from the 5
of Aprile 1789 to the 5 of Aprile 1790 as well as an account of what Servants horses and Carriages they
might use and employ any where Else and that the forgoing Report was made up from their
several Attested lists or Returns to me from the best information I could procure or from my own
certain knowledge of their respective Establishments.
William Brunton
Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 18 - Counties (L-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/18
This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the counties of Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Morayshire (Elgin and Forres), Nairnshire, Orkney, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland (lordship of Zetland), Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire), and Wigtownshire, 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).