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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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Report of the CARRIAGE AND SADDLE HORSE TAX. within the Royalty
[of] Craill for the year ending 5th. April 1798 By Patrick Plenderleath Sur. [Surveyor]
[Page] 19

Duty £1.10.0
10 p [per] Cent £0.3.0
Addl. [Additional] duty £1.10.0
£3.3.0

Proof 3 Horses @ 10/ [£0.10.0] £1.10.0
10 P [Per] Cent on 3 Horses @ 10/ p 31 G. 3d. [£0.10.0] per 31 George 3rd] £0.3.0
Addl. [Additional] duty p 36.G.3d [per 36 George 3rd] £1.10.0
£3.3.0

Pittenweem 13th February 1798 I Patrick Plenderleath surveyor aforesaid
do hereby Certify that upon Careful examination of the foregoing rates
and duties I find they amount to the sum of Three pounds
three shillings sterling, And that I this day delivered to Mr. Robert
Murray Collector for said Burgh a full duplicate of this account Containing
my oath that the preceding Inhabitants were duly served
with Requisitions of the foresaid dates, And that they were Charged according
to their own returns or the best Information And that they are liable to
pay the sums set against their several names
Patrick Plenderleath 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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