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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 Selkirk from the 5 of Aprile 1791 to the 5 Aprile 1792 by William Brunton Surveyor.

Proof
8 Horses at £0.10.0 Each is £4.0.0
£4.0.0 at 10 per cent is £0.8.0
Sum Total is £4.8.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid to hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find the above
dutys amount to the Sum of Four pounds eight Shillings and that upon the Nineteenth day of October
I delivered to Peter Tait Collector of said duty for the Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate
of the Above which contained my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants were duly Served with Requisitions of
the date 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 April
Ninety one to the fifth of Aprile Ninety two as well as an account of what Servants horses they might
use and employ any where else And the forgoing report was made up from their Attested lists or Returns to me
from the best information I could procure or from my 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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