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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 29 - Counties (A-K) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/29

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Survey of Kincardine Shire Continued

next to entry for Garvock: compd [compared] with other dup: added


Proof
120 Horse by the Act 25th Geo:3rd ........... at £0.10.0 each £60.0.0
11 Whereof by the Act 29th [Ft]: Geo:3rd .....at £0.5.0 each £2.15.0
18 Whereof by the Act 29th [Ft]: Geo:3rd .....at £0.7.6 each £6.15.0 £69.10.0
Additional dutie by Act 31st K:Geo 3rd ten per cent £ 6.19.0 £76.9.0
Additional dutie by Act 36th K:Geo 3rd on 91 Single Horses of ones at £0.10.0 £45.10.0
11 Single Horses by Act 36th K:Geo 3rd (of twos).... at £0.15.0 £ 8.5.0
18 Single Horses by Act 36th K:Geo 3rd (threes) at 5 at £0.7.6 £15.15.0 £69.10.0 £145.19.0

Saddle Horse Tax Kincardine Shire to 5th April 1798 [in margin]

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon carefull Examination of
the foregoing several Rates and duties I find they amount to One hundred & thirty
pounds Sterling and six pounds nineteen shillings being ten per Ct [cent] on the first
mentioned duty Amounting the whole to One hundred and fourty five pounds
nineteen shillings Sterling And that upon the -- day of -- 1798 I delivered to Alexander Gardyne
and John Burnett joint Collectors of the said duties for the Shire
aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above Account duly examined and compared
with the foregoing Which contained my Oath That Notices were left with the
whole foregoing Inhabitants or at their dwelling places of the dates annexed to their
respective names requiring them within fourteen days to give in a List of the
Carriage and Saddle horses employed by them from 5th April 1796 to 5th
April 1797 And that the said Survey was made out from the Lists returned
to me And from the best information I could procure of the Carriage Saddle
horses of those whose Lists were deficient or who neglected or refused
to return Lists in terms of the Notices of requisition left with them as aforesaid.
William Greig Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 29 - Counties (A-K) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/29

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), Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, and Kirkcudbrightshire, between the 5th of April 1797 until the 5th of April 1798.

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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