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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 Carriage and Saddle Horse Tax in the Burgh of
Jedburgh from the 5 of April 1792 to the 5 April 1793 by William Brunton Surveyor.

Proof
16 Horses at £0.10.0 Each is £8.0.0
£8.0.0 at 10 per Cent is £0.16.0
Sum Total £8.16.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I find the
duties amount to the Sum of Eight Pound Sixteen Shillings and that upon the thirteen day of
Octbr. [October] 1792 I delivered to James Black Collector of Said dutys for the Burgh aforesaid an exact
duplicate of the above which contained my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants were duly Served
requisitions of the dates foresaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to
me 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 Serts. [Servants]
Horses and Carriages they might use and employ any where Else and that the foregoing report was made
up from their Several Attested lists or Returns to me from the best information I could procure or from
my own certain knowledge of their Respective Establishments.
William Brunton

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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