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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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FORFAR 22

A survey of the Dutie on Carriage & Riding Horses arisen in the Burgh of Forfar for
[the] half Year from 10th October 1784 to the 5th April 1785 by William Greig Surveyor

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination
of the forgoing Duties I find they amount in whole to Three Pounds Fifteen Shillings Sterg [Sterling]
And that upon the [...] day of [...] 1786 I delivered David Roberts Collector of the
said Duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account ( as will
appear from [...] ) duly examind and Compared with the foregoing
which contained my Oath that Nottices were left with the Several persons before named
or at their dwelling houses of the dates annexed to their respective names requiring
them within fourteen days to give in a list of their Horses retained or employed by
them from the Tenth day of Oct [October] 1784 to the fifth of April 1785 and that
the said Account or Survey is made out from the lists returned to me, and from the
best information I could procure of the Horses of those who neglected or refused to give
in a list thereof in terms of the Nottices left with them as aforesaid
William Greig 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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