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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 31 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/31

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A Survey of the Carriage and Saddle Horse Tax in the Burgh of Peebles
from the 5 of April 1797 to the 5 April 1798 by William Bruton Surveyor.

8 Horses at Sh. [Shillings] 10 [£0.10.0] Each is £4.0.0
£4.0.0 at 10 per Cent is £0.8.0
Additional duty £4.0.0
Sum Total £8.8.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I find the above duty amounts to Eight pounds Eight Shillings and that upon the ..... day of ..... I delivered to James Hall Collector of said duties for the Burgh of foresaid an exact duplicate of the above duly compared which contained my Oath that the preceeding persons were duly Served with requisitions of the duties 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 Carriages used and employed by them from the 5 of April 1797 to the 5 April 1798 as well as an Account of what Carriages they might use and employ any where Else and that the foregoing report was made up from their Several Attested lists or returns to me from the best information I could procure or from my own certain knowledge of their respective Establishments.
William Brunton

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 31 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/31

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the Scottish burghs of Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Arbroath (Aberbrothock), Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Crail, Campbeltown, Cullen, Culross, Cupar, Dingwall, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dysart, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverary, Inverkeithing, Inverness, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kilrenny, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Queensferry (South Queensferry), Renfrew, Rutherglen, St Andrews, Sanquhar, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, Whithorn, and Wigtown, 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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