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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 21 - Counties (L-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/21

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A Survey of the Duties on Carriage & Saddle Horse in the Shire of Lanark for the year from
the 5th of April 1790 to the 5th of April 1791 by William Mure Surveyor
Surveyed from the 10th of June [10 Jun 1790]
LANARKSHIRE

[following dates consecutively in left margin indicating the dates on which the survey occurred for this page]
19 Jul 1790, 20 Jul 1790, 22 Jul 1790, 25 Jul 1790, 04 Aug 1790

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 21 - Counties (L-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/21

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the counties of Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Morayshire (Elgin and Forres), Orkney, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland (lordship of Zetland), Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire), and Wigtownshire, 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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