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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 of CARRIAGE AND SADDLE HORSE TAX. in the Burgh of
Dumbarton from 5 April 1794 to 5 April 1795 By David Hutcheson Surveyor

Prooff
12 @ 10/ [£0.10.0] .............£6.0.0
2 @ 15/ [£0.15.0] .............£1.10.0
............................................£7.10.0
10 p [per] cent thereon ....£0.15.0
...............................................£8.5.0

I David Hutcheson Surveyor aforesaid do hereby that upon Carefull
examination I find the foregoing duties amount to eight Pounds five
shillings sterling and that this day I have delivered to Mr John McAulay
an exact duplicate of this accompt duly examined and Compared &
which Contained my oath that the forenamed Inhabitants were duly
served with requisitions of the Sums Prefixed to their names, and that they
are charged the amount respectively Conform to their returns or the best of
my Knowledge and Information that they are Liable in the Same

Glasgow 19 Decr [December] 1794
David Hutcheson

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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