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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 in the Burgh of Craill from the 5 of April 1790
to 5th April 1791 By Charles Robb Surveyor

Prooff
1 Saddele Horse at 10/ Is £0.10.0

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful Examination
of the foregoing duties I find they Amount in whole to Ten Shillings Sterling and that
upon the Seventeen day of November I delivered to David Gillis Collector of the saed
duties for the Burgh aforesaed an Exact duplicat of the above Account duly Examined
and compared with the foregoing which Contained My Oath that Nottices were left with the
Several parsons befor named or at their dwelling houses of the dates anexed to their respective
names requiring them within fourteen dayes to give in alist of their Carriage or Saddle horses
retained or Employed by them from the 5 day of April 1789 to the 5 day of April 1790 and that
the said Account or Survey is made out from the list returned to me and from the Best Information
I could procure of the Carriage or Saddle horses of those whose lists ar deficient Neglected or
refused to give in alist thereof in termes of the Nottices left with them as Aforesaed

Charles Robb Surveyor

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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