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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 Andrew Aitchison Surveyor as above Do hereby Certify That upon carefull
examination of the above rates find they amount to the Sum of One pound
Seven Shillings and Sixpence Sterling and that on this day I delivered
to Archibald Hamilton Esqr. Collector of these duties an exact duplicate of this
account which contained my Oath that the above Coll. [Colonel] Hamilton were duly
Served with a requisition and he is now charged according to his return.
Glasgow 16th Jany [January] 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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