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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 19 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/19

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Survey of the Carriage and Saddle Horse Tax in the Burgh of
Selkirk from the 5 of Aprile 1790 to the 5 Aprile 1791 by William Brunton Surveyor.

Proof
10 Horses at £0.10.0 Each is £5.0.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination
I find the above duties amount to the Sum of Five pounds and that upon the 24th day of
Nov [November] 1790 I delivered to Patrick Tait Collector of these duties for the Burgh 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 acount 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 19 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/19

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the Scottish burghs of Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Anstruther Wester, Arbroath (Aberbrothock), Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Burntisland, Campbeltown, Crail, Cullen, Culross, Cupar, Dingwall, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dysart, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverary, Inverkeithing, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kilrenny, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Pittenweem, Queensferry (South Queensferry), Renfrew, Rothesay, Rutherglen, St Andrews, Sanquhar, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, Whithorn, and Wigtown, 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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