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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 28 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/28

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Perth 11 November 1794 I Laurence Buchan Surveyor aforesaid [do]
hereby certify That upon careful Examination of the foregoing Several Rates and
Duties I find they Amount in Whole to Twenty Eight pounds One Shilling
stg [Sterling] and this date I delivered to Mr Patrick Miller Collector of Said Duties for the
Town aforesaid an Exact Duplicate of the Above Account duly Examined [and]
compared with the foregoing. That Notices or requisitions were left with the
several Inhabitants or at their Dwelling houses part of which returns were [made]
and have charged same to the best of my knowledge
Laurence Buchan Surv [Surveyor]



A Survey of the Rates
and Duties on Carriage & Saddle
Horse Tax in the Town of
Perth from 5 Apr 1794 [05 Apr 1794] to 5 Apr 1795 [05 Apr 1795]
per
Laurence Buchan Surveyor
£28.1.0
Exd. GS [Examined General Surveyor]

E326/9/28
No 44

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 28 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/28

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the Scottish burghs of Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Anstruther Wester, Arbroath (Aberbrothock), Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Burntisland, Campbeltown, Crail, Cullen, Cupar, Dingwall, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dysart, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverary, Inverkeithing, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kilrenny, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Pittenweem, Queensferry (South Queensferry), Renfrew, Rutherglen, St Andrews, Sanquhar, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, Whithorn, and Wigtown, 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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