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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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I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby fortify that upon
careful Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they
amount to Eleven pounds seventeen Shillings and six pence sterling
which with the ten percent duty thereon being one pound three shillings
and nine pence sterling makes them amount in whole to Thirteen
pounds one shilling and three pence sterling and that upon the
Twelfth day of December Current I delivered to Mr. John Watt
Collector of said Taxes for said Burgh at his office an exact Duplicate
hereof and duly examined & compared with the foregoing account which
contained my oath that notification were left or Delivered of the dates
foresaid and that the Rates and Duties charged in said account were
just and true to the best of my skill and knowledge and to the best
of my belief no person liable to be charged was omitted
Robert Aiken

Survey
The Rates and Duties upon
Carriage and Saddle horses
within the Royal Burgh
Irvine from 5 April
1792 to 5 April 1793 By
Rob Aiken
Surveyor


Ex GS [Examined General Surveyor]
Surveyor Generals Copy
E326/9/25
No.28

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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