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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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I David Hutcheson Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify [that]
upon carefull examination I find the foregoing [duties]
amount to ninety three pounds ten Shillings Sterling
and that on this day I delivered to Thomas Ewing Esq.
Collector of these duties an exact duplicate of this [account]
duly compared which contained my oath that the
before named Inhabitants were duly served with Requis [Requisitions]
and that they are to be charged the sums to their res [respective]
names Sett agreeable to their returns to me or to [the]
best of my information knowledge or belief that
they are liable in the Same
Glasgow 5 Jany [January] 1795
[signed] David Hutcheson

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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