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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 22 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/22

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[Page] 102

I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify
that upon Careful examination I find the forgoing Duties
amount to the Sum of Seventeen pounds Two Shillings
and seven pence Eight tenths Str. [Sterling] and that upon the
____ day of ____ I delivered to Mr. John Strachan
Collector of the said duties for the Burgh of Montrose
an exact duplicate of this account which contained my oath that
the Persons on the foregoing page were served with
requisitions, and that they were Charged agreeable to their
returns to me, or from the best information I could procure

Montrose
Horse Tax
£17.2.7.8ths St [Sterling
B
Due 5th Apl. [April] 1792
Exd GS [Examined General Surveyor]
E326/9/22
No. 40

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 22 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/22

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the Scottish burghs of Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Arbroath (Aberbrothock), Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Campbeltown, Cullen, Culross, Dingwall, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverary, Inverkeithing, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kilrenny, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Pittenweem, Queensferry (South Queensferry), Renfrew, Rothesay, Rutherglen, St Andrews, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, Whithorn, and Wigtown, 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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