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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 CARRIAGE AND SADDLE HORSE TAX. Inveraray
for the year ending 5th Aprile 1791 By Duncan MacNuier Surveyor

Proof
8 Rates at £0.10.0... £4.0.0
6 Rates At £0.10.0 and £0.15.0 .. £3.15.0
[Total] £7.15.0

I Duncan Mac Nuier Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull
examination of the foregoing several rates and dutys I find they ammount in
whole to Seven pounds Fifteen Shillings Sterl [Sterling]; And that upon the twelfth
day of March Jaivy [1700] and ninety One years I delivered to Donald Campbell
Esqr. Collr. [Collector] of the Supply for Argyllshire an exact duplicate of the
above Accompt duly examined and Compared with the foregoing
which contained my Oath that requisitions were given to the forenamed
persons or left at their dwelling houses of the date foresaid, And that
the above Survey was made out from the Returns made to me in
consequence thereof, and from the best information I could
otherwise obtain Duncan Mac Nuier

Inverary 12th March
1791}

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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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