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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 25 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/25

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Survey of the CARRIAGE AND SADDLE HORSE TAX. in Queensferry
from the 5th April 1792 to 5th April 1793 James Watsone Surveyor

I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify That
upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties find
they Amount in whole to the Sum of Three pounds Seventeen Shillings
Sterling, And that upon the Tenth day of this Current Month of
October I delivered to Mr Robert Chapman Collector for the foresaid
Burgh of Queensferry an exact Duplicate of the above Survey which
Contained my Oath That the several persons beforenamed were duly
served with Requisitions and Notices whereby they were to be Charged
with the several Duties hereby Certified to be due by them

James Watsone Surveyor
Linlithgow 18th. October 1792

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 25 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/25

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the Scottish burghs of Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Arbroath (Aberdrothock), Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Burntisland, Campbeltown, Crail, Cullen, Cupar, Dingwall, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dysart, 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, Sanquhar, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, and Wigtown, 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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