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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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I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon
carefull examination of the forgoing Rates and Duties I find they
amount in whole to the sum of Fourteen pounds fourteen shillings
and three pence Sterl. [Sterling] And that upon the Fourteenth day of
October last I delivered to Mr George Peat Collector for the
foresaid County an exact Dupplicate of the forgoing Survey
which contained my oath that the several persons beforenamed
were duly served with Requisitions and Notices whereby they
were to be charged with the several Duties hereby certified to
de due by them
James Watsone Surveyor
Linlithgow 2nd November 1791

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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