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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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Clackmanan County Carriage and Saddle Horse Tax Survey Continued

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48 horses @ 10/- [£0.10.0] each is £24.0.0
1 horse @ 15/- [£0.15.0] each is £0.15.0
7 horses @ 17/6 [£0.17.6] each is £6.2.6
16 horses @ £1 each is £16.0.0
[Total] £46.17.6
10. P Ct [Per Cent] thereon is £4.13.9
Totall £51.11.3

I James Watson Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull
Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole
to the Sum of Fifty one Pounds Eleven Shillings and Three Pence Sterling, And
That upon the fourteenth day of October Current I delivered to Mr. John
Jameson Collector for the foresaid County an exact Duplicate of the foresaid
Survey, which Contained my oath That the several Persons before named
were duly Served with Requisitions and Notices whereby they were to be
Charged with the several Duties hereby Certified to be due by them.
[signed] James Watsone Surveyor
Linlithgow 25th October 1794

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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