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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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Survey of the Carriage and Saddle Horse Tax in the Burgh of
Peebles from the 5 Aprile 1791 to the 5 Aprile 1792 by William Brunton Surveyor.


Proof
12 Horses at £0.10.0 each is £6.0.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find
the above duties amount to the Sum of Six pounds Twelve shillings and that upon the third day
of November I delivered to John Hyslop Collector of said duties an
exact duplicate of the above which contained my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants were duely
served with Requisitions of the dates foresaid demanding 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 of
Aprile Ninety two as well as an Account of what Servants Horses and Carriages they might
[use] and employ any where Else and that the foreging report was made up from their Severall
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 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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