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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 26 - Counties (A-I) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/26

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to the fifth day of April 1794 And that the Said Account or Survey
is made out from the lists returned to me, and from the best In-
formation I could procure of the Carriage & Saddle horses of
those whoes lists are deficient, and others who Neglected or re-
fused to give in a list there of in terms of the Notices left with
them as aforesaid. [signed] Charles Faquharson

At Aberdeen 17 Jany [January] 1795
Sworn before George Auldjo J.P [Justice of the Peace]

Aberdeen 17 January 1795. I John Durno Collector
of the Land Tax of Aberdeenshire Do hereby acknowledge
to have this day received from Mr Charles Farquharson
Surveyor of the foregoing Duties a Duplicate of the
Survey contained on the fourteen preceeding Pages - And
which Duties including the additional Duty of 10 p [per] Cent
amount to the Sum of Two hundred & Six pounds seven
Shillings & nine pence Sterling. [signed] John Durno

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 26 - Counties (A-I) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/26

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), and Inverness-shire, between the 5th of April 1793 until the 5th of April 1795.

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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