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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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I James Allan Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby Certify that upon
Carefull Examination I find the foregoing duties Amount to the Sum of
One hundred and Seventy Pounds fifteer Shillings and six pence Sterlg, [Sterling] and
that upon the 24th Current I delivered to Mr Thomas Wingate of
Stirling Collector of said duties an exact duplicate of this Account, duly
examined and Compared which contained my Oath that the preceeding
Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions, And that they were
Charged in Conformity to their several Returns now in my possesion, or
according to my knowledge and belief they were liable in said
duties
James Allan Surveyor
Alloa 26th Novemr [November] 1791

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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