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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 24 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/24

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I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I find the above
duties amount to the Sum of Fifty five Pounds and that upon the fifteen day of Octobr. [October] 1792 I delivered
to John Scott Collector of said duties for the Shire aforesaid an Exact duplicate of the above which contained my
Oath that the preceeding inhabitants were duly Served with Requisitions of the dates foresaid desiring them
within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to my upon calling for that purpose an Attested list of all
the Servants Horses and Carriages used and employed by them from the 5 of April 1792 to the 5 of April 1793
as well as an acount of what Servants Horses and Carriages they might use and employ any where Else and that the
foreging report was made up from their Several Attested lists or Returns to me from the best information I could
procure and from my own certain knowledge of their Respective Establishments.

William Brunton.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 24 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/24

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, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Morayshire (Elgin and Forres), Nairnshire, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland (lordship of Zetland), Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire), and Wigtownshire, 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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