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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 Kirkaldie from 5 day of April 1790 to 5 day of
April 1791 By Charles Robb Assessor (1791-2)

Prooff
12 Horses ditto at £0.10.0 pr [per] Annum £6.0.0 £0.12.0
1 Horses ditto at £0.15.0 Each pr [per] Annum £0.15.0 £0.1.6
7 Horses ditto at £1.0.0 Each pr [per] Annum £7.0.0 £0.14.0
[Totals] £13.15.0 £1.7.6

I Charles Robb assessor aforesaid do hearby Certify that upon carefull
Examition of the foregoing Duties I find they amount in whole to thirteen pound
fiveteen Shillings Sterlling and the ten per Cent Duty to one pound seven
Shillings and six pence Sterling and that upon the Eight Day November I
Delivered William Draysdell Collector of the said Duties for the Burgh
afore said an exact duplicat of the above account duly examined and
Compared with the for Going which contained my Oath that notices
were Left with the Severall persons before named or at there
dwelling houses of the Dates Annexed to their respective names
requiring them within fourteen days to give in a List of there
Carreages 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 procuir of the Carr [Carriage] or Saddle horses of those
whows list are deficiant neglected or refused to Give in a list there
of in terms of the Nottices left with them as a foresaid

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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