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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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Survey CARRIAGE AND SADDLE HORSE TAX. Burgh of
Campbeltown for the year ending 5th. April 1795 By Duncan MacNuier Surveyor

I Duncan MacNuier Surveyor Aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon
careful examination of the duties I find they amount in whole to to
One pound ten Shillings And that upon the 14th. day of March
Seventeen hundred and Ninety five I sent by post to Andrew Ralston
Collector of the said duties an exact duplicate of the above account
which contained my oath that Requisitions were delivered to the foregoing
and that they are charged from their Answers or the best infor-
mation Duncan MacNuier
Invy. [Inveraray] 15 March
1795

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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