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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 20 - Counties (A-K) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/20

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Page 3d & Proof
[Page] 131

Proof of the Abstract
17 Horses of Coln [Column] 6 at £1.0.0 each is £17.0.0
13 Horses of Coln [Column] 3 at £0.17.7 each is £11.7.6
22 Horses of Coln [Column] 2 at £0.15.0 each is £16.10.0
205 Horses of Coln [Column] 1 at £0.10.0 each is £52.10.0
Duty on Horses £97.7.6
Interest yr [year] on at 10 PC [Per Cent] Per A [Per Annum] £9.14.9
£017.2.3

I John Rose Surveyor aforsaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of
the Above duties I find they Amount to the sum of One Hundred and Seven pounds two Shillings
and three penc Sterling & that upon the twenty second day of November Current I
delivered to Mr James Grant Collector of the Said duties for the Shire aforsaid an exact
Duplicate of the Above Account which Contains my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants
were duly Served with requisitions of the dates Aforesaid requiring them within fourteen day to
Deliver to me an Attested list of their Servant horses & Carriages employed & Used by them
from the 5th April Merly to the 5th April 1791 & that the Above Account was made up from
their Several returns to me from the best Information or from my Own Certain knowledge
of ther respective establishments
[signed] John Rose Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 20 - Counties (A-K) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/20

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the counties of Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Bute, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, Haddingtonshire (East Lothian), Fife, Forfarshire (Angus), Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, and Kinross-shire, between the 5th of April 1791 until the 5th of April 1792.

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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