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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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[Page] 26th

[Written vertically in Date column] Lanarkshire Horses
To 5th April 1793

Proof
658 Horses at £0.10.0 each horse is £329.0.0
50 Horses at £0.15.0 each horse is £37.10.0
70 Horses at £0.17.6 each horse is £61.5.0
36 Horses at £1.0.0 each horse is £36.0.0
814 £463.15.0
Ten per Cent on the above £46.7.6
Grand Proof £510.2.6

I Andrew Aitchison Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon carefull
examination of the foregoing Several rates and duties find they amount
in wholl to the Sum of Five hundred and Ten pounds Two Shillings and
Sixpence Sterling and that on this day I delivered to Archibald Hamilton
Colletor of these duties an exact duplicate of this Account duly examined
and compared which contained my Oath that the foregoing Inhabitants
were duly Served with Requisitions and that they were charged according
to the best of my knowledge and belief that they were liable in said duties.
Glasgow 9th Jan 1793 Andrew Aitchison

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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