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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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291 Horses at £0.10.0..........£145.10.0
30 Horses at £0.15.0............£ 22.10.0
80 Horses at £0.17.6............£ 70.0.0
36 Horses at £1.0.0 .............£ 36.0.0

Total by proof........................£274.0.0
10 per cent thereon...... £27.8.0

Total............................. £301.8.0

I Robert Aiken, Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon
careful Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount
to Two hundred and Seventy four pounds Sterling which with ten per cent
thereon being Twenty seven ponds Eight shillings Sterling makes
them amount in whole to Three hundred and one pounds Eight shillings
Sterling And that upon the Ninth day of December Curt. [Current] I delivered
to Mr. Charles Shaw Depute Collector of said Duties for said County
at the office of Messrs. Bruce Campbell and John Montgomery Principal
Collectors of Said Duties for said County an Exact Duplicate of and duly
Examined and Compared with the foregoing account which contains my Oath
that notifications were delivered or left of the dates foresaid and that the
Rates charged in said account were just and true to the best of my skill and
Knowledge; and to the best of my belief no Person liable to be charged was
omitted.
Robert Aiken

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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