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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 in the burgh of Killrennie from 5th day of April 1790 to 5th April 1791
by Charles Robb Assessor

I Charles Robb Assessor aforsaid dow hearby Certify that upon carefull Examination
of the foregoing Duties I find the Amount in whole to ten Shilling Sterling
and the ten per cent Duty to one Shilling Sterling and that upon the
Fourth Day November I delivered to Robert Pratts Collector of the said
Duties for the Burgh aforsaid an exact duplicat of the above account
duly Examined and compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath
that notices were left with the Severall pearsons before named or at their
Dwelling houses of the date Annexed to there respective names requiring
them within foureteen 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 inforation I could
procuer of the Carr [Carriage] or saddle horses of those whous list are deficiant
Neglected or Refused to give in a list there of in terms of the Nottices Left with
them as aforesaid
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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