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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 3 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/3

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QUEENSFERRY 46

Queensferry Town Survey upon Horses
from 10th Oct 1785 to 5 April 1786 p [per] James Allan Survey [Surveyor]

[written by hand above DUTY column title] ½ years

I James Allan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify That upon
Carefull Examination of the foregoing several Rates & duties I find they
Amount in Whole to Two pounds fifteen Shillings Sterg [Sterling] and that upon
the 10th Current I delivered to Mr Robert Chapman Collector for the Town
aforesaid an exact duplicate of the Above Account duly examined & Compared
with the foregoing, which contained my Oath that Notices were left with
the Several Inhabitants or at their Dwelling houses & that they are
Chargeable with the sums hereby certified to be due from them

Alloa 11th March 1786 James Allan Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 3 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/3

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the Scottish burghs of Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Arbroath (Aberdrothock), Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Burntisland, Campbeltown, Crail, Cullen, Cupar, Dingwall, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dysart, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Fortrose and Rosemarkie, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverary, Inverkeithing, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, Nairn, New Galloway, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Pittenweem, Queensferry (South Queensferry), Rothesay, Rutherglen, St Andrews, Sanquhar, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, and Wigtown, between the 10th of October 1785 until the 5th of April 1786.

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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