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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 30 - Counties (L-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/30

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Carriage and Saddle Horse Tax.
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123 Saddle horses at £0.10.0 Each is £61.10.0
8 Saddle horses at £0.10.0 Each is £ 6.0.0
10 Saddle horses at £0.17.6 Each is £8.15.0
12 Saddle horses at £1.0.0 Each is £12.0.0
£88.5.0
£88.5.0 at 10 per Cent is £8.16.6
Sum Total £97.1.6
Additional Duty £88.5.0
Sum total £185.6.6

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination
of the foregoing Taxs I find that they amount to the sum of One Hundred and Eighty five pounds Six
Shillings and Six pence and that upon the ..... day of ...... I delivered to
Gideon Needham Collector of these duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above
duty compared which contained my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants were duly Served
with Requisitions of the dates foresaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause
to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose An Attested list of all the Carriage and Saddle
Horses they have and employed from the 5 of April 1797 to the 5 of April 1798 as well as an
account of what Carriages and horses they might employ any where Else and that the fore[going]
report was made up from their Several Attested lists or Returns to me from the best of my information [I could]
procure or from my own knowledge of their Respective Establishments.
William Brunton

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 30 - Counties (L-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/30

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the counties of Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Morayshire (Elgin and Forres), Nairnshire, Orkney, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland (lordship of Zetland), Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire), and Wigtownshire, 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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