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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 27 - Counties (K-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/27

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Proof 44 Horses @ £0.10.0 each £22.0.0 Duty on Horses £44.17.6
5 Horses @ £0.15.0 each £3.15.0 Ten per Cent £4.9.9
15 Horses @ £0.17.6 each £13.2.6 £49.7.3
6 Horses @ £1.0.0 each £6.0.0
£44.17.6
Ten per Cent on £44.17.6 £4.9.9
£49.7.3


I Duncan Campbell Surveyor do hereby Certify that upon
careful examination of the foregoing rates and and duties I find the amount
in whole to be Forty nine pounds seven shillings and three pence
and that the several Inhabitants were duly served with requisitions
and the assessments made up from the lists answers and other information
in my possession by Duncan Campbell Surveyor
Patrick Duff Collector.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 27 - Counties (K-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/27

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the counties of Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Morayshire (Elgin and Forres), Nairnshire, Orkney, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland (lordship of Zetland), Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire), and Wigtownshire, 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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