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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 23 - Counties (A-K) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/23

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Survey of Carriage and Saddle Horse Tax Kirkcudbt. [Kirkcudbright]
Stewartry contd. [continued]

I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon
careful examination of the foregoing several rates and duties I
find they amount in whole to the sum of one hundred & ninety
five pounds sixteen shillings Sterling; and that upon the
Tenth day of December one thousand seven hundred &
ninety two years I delivered to Alexander Gordon Esqr. of
Campbelton Coll. [Collector] an exact Duplicate of the foregoing which
contained my Oath that Requisitions or notices were
delivered to or left for the several forgoing Persons at
their dwelling places of the dates annexed to their
respective names that were to be charged with the
duties so respectively due by them
Anthony Macmillan

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 23 - Counties (A-K) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/23

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the counties of Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Bute, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, Haddingtonshire (East Lothian), Fife, Forfarshire (Angus), Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, and Kirkcudbrightshire, between the 5th of April 1792 until the 5th of April 1793.

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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