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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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213 Horses at 10s. [£0.10.0] each is .....£106.10.0
24 Horses at 15s. [£0.15.0] each is .......£18.0.0
69 Horses at 17s. 6d. [£0.17.6] each is £60.7.6
53 Horses at £1.0.0 each is.... £53.0.0

................................................ £237.17.6
10 per cent for 31st Geo [George]III'd. £ 23.15.9
Additional Duty........................ £237.17.6
Total........................................ £499.10.9

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid do hereby
Certify that upon careful Examination of the foregoing
Rates and Duties I find the amount by
proof to four hundred and ninety nine Pounds ten
Shillings and nine Pence Sterling. And that from
form to their Receipt I delivered to Messrs. John and
and Hamilton Boswells depute collectors
at the office of Bruce Campbell Esquire Principal Collector
of said Duties an exact Duplicate of this Account which contained my Oath
that Requisitions were delivered or left, and that the Rates and Duties charged
in said Account were just and true to the best of my belief, skill and knowledge
and no Person omitted, known to me ought to have been charged.
Robert Aitken.

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Of the Rates and Duties upon
Carriage and Saddle Horses within the
Country Parishes of Airshire
From 5th April 1797 to 5th April 1798

By
Robert Aiken
Surveyor Generals Copy

Compd [Compered] and Completed by RA

Exd GS [Examined General Surveyor]

E326/ 9/ 29

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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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