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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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ST ANDREWS 49

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20 Horses @ 5/ [£0.5.0] Each for half a year is £5.0.0

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Careful Examination
of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties I find they Amount in whole to the Sum of
Five pounds Sterlling and that that upon the Ninth day of March
I delivered to Andrew Gullen Collector for the Burgh aforesaid an Exact
Duplicat of the Above Account duly Examined and Compared with the
foregoing which Contained my Oath that Notices were left with the Several
Inhabitants or at their dwelling Houses of the Dates Annexed to their
Respective Names that they were to be Charged with the Sums hereby Certified to be
due from them
Charles Robb 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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