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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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A Survey Carriage and Saddle Horse Tax in the Burgh of
Jedburgh from the 5 of Aprile 1791 to the 5 of April3 1792 By William Brunton. Surveyor.

Proof
16 Horses at £0.10.0 Each is £8.0.0
£8.0.0 at 10 per Cent is £0.16.0
Total £8.16.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I find the
above dutys Amount to the Sum of Eight pound Sixteen Shillings and that upon the Twenty day of
October I delivered to John Black Collector of the said duty for the Burgh foresaid an
exact duplicate of the above which contained my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly Served with
Requisitions of the dates aforesaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to me
upon my 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 forging Report was
made up from their Several 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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