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I Duncan MacNuier Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon
carefull examination of the foregoing Rates and duties I find they amount
in whole to One hundred and Thirty four pounds Seventeen Shillings and
nine pence Sterling And that upon the 14th day of March 1795 I delivered
to Mr Colin Campbell D [Deputy] C [Collector] of the said duties an exact duplicate of
the above account which contained my oath that notices were leftwith
the foregoing Inhabitants; and that they are Charged from their answers
or to the best of my knowledge that they were liable
Duncan MacNuier Surveyor
Invery [Inveraray] 15 March 1795

Report Survey
Carriage & Saddle
Horse Ta5 April 1795
£134.17.9 Stg [Sterling]

Ex [Examined] Copy
E326/9/26
No 2

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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