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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] 73 (1791-2)
Survey in the Burgh of Innerkeithing from 5 day of April 1790 to 5 April
1791 by Charles Robb Surveyor

Prooff
7 Horses at £.. 10/ [£0.10.0] Each per Annum £3.10.0 .... £0.7.0

I Charles Robb Assessor aforesaid do heareby Certify that upon carefull Examination
of the foregoing Duties I find the Amount in whole to three
pound ten Shilling Sterling and the ten per cent Duty to seven Shillings
Sterling and that upon the Ninth Day November I delivered to John Killock
Collector of the said duties for the Burgh aforsaid an Exact duplicat
of the Above account duly Examined and compared with the foregoing
which contianed my Oath that notices were Left with the Several
persons before named or at their dwelling houses of the Dates annexed
to there respective names requiring them within fourteen Days to
Give in a list of their Carriages or Saddle horses retained or Employed
by them from the 5 day of April 1790 to the 5 April 1791 and that the
said account or survey is Made out from the List returned to me and from
the best information I could procuer of the Carri [Carriage] or sadle horses of
those whouse list are deficient neglected or refused to Give in a list there
of in terms of the notices left with them as aforsaid

Charles Robb Assessor

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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