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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 Anstruther Easter from the 5 of
April 1790 to 5th April 1791 By Charles Robb Surveyor

Prooff
7 horses at 10/ [£0.10.0] Each Is £3.10.0
[Total] £3.10.0

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certifye that upon careful Examination of the
foregoing duties I find they Amount in whole to Three pounds Ten Shillings Sterlling and
that upon the Twentyfourt day of November I delivered to Alexander Clark Collector of
the saed duties for the Burgh aforesaid 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 a list 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 saed 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 are deficiant
Neglected or refused to give in a list 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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