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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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69 Horses at £0.10.0 Each is £34.10.0
2 Horses at £0.15.0 Each is £1.10.0
14 Horses at £0.17.6 Each is £12.5.0
£48.5.0
£48.5.0 at Ten per Cent £4.16.6
Total £53.1.6


I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I find that the above
dutys Amount to the Sum of Fifty three pound One Shilling and Six pence and that upon the ..... day of
..... I delivered to John Scott Collector of Said dutys for the Shire aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above
which contained my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions of the dates
aforesaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose
an Attested list of all the servants horses and Carriages used and employed by them from the fifth of Aprile
Ninety One to the fifth Aprile Ninety Two as well as an account of what Servants Horses or Carriages they
might use and employ any where Else and that the foreging report was made up from the Several Attested lists
or Returns to me from the best information I could procure or from my own certain knowledge of their respective
Establishments. -
William Brunton.

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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