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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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Survey of the Rates and Duties on Carriage & Saddle Horses arrisen in the Burgh of Tain
from 5 April 1796 till 5 April 1797 By William Murray Surveyor
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Proof 4 Horses @ 10/ [£0.10.0] £2.0.0
1 Horse @ 10/ [£0.10.0] £0.10.0
1 Horse £0.15.0
£3.5.0
10 p Ct p 31 Geo 3 [10 per Cent per 31 George III.] £0.6.6
Additional duty p 36 G.3. [per 36 George III.] £0.3.5
£6.16.6 £6.16.6

18 Nov 1797
I William Murray Surveyor aforesaid do Certify, that Upon carefull
Examination of the foregoing Rates & Duties, I find the Sum amounts
to Six Pounds Sixteen Shillings and Sixpence Stirling & I do further Certify
That the Above Account Contains the Number of Carriage & Saddle Horses
Returned to me within this Burgh
William Murray Surveyor

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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