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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 18 - Counties (L-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/18

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Additional Survey of the CARRIAGE AND SADDLE HORSE TAX in the County of Linlithgow from the 5th April 1790 to the 5th April 1791 James Watson Surveyor

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I James Watson Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that the above
John Galbreath was duly certified that he was to be charged with the
above ten shillings Sterl. [Sterling] as the duty of one Saddle horse; And
upon the twelfth day of January current I delivered to Mr
James Taylor Collector for the County of Linlithgow an exact
Dupplicate of this Survey, duly certified opon oath by me
James Watson Surveyor
Linlithgow 13th January 1791

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).

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