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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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I David Mcmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of
the foregoing Duties I find they amount Four hundred and Seventy one pounds fourteen
Shillings and three pence Sterling, and that upon the twenty ninth day of Janr [January] one
thousand seven hundred and ninety Eight years, I delivered to Alexander Gordon Esq. of
Campbellton Collr. [Collector] of the said Duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact Duplicate of
the foregoing which contained my Oath that Requisitions or notices were delivered
to or left for the several foregoing Inhabitants of the dates annexed to their
and the Charge made out according to their Returns or My best information.
David Mcmillan

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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