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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
Anstruther Easter for the year ending 5th April 1798 By Patrick Plenderleath Surveyor
[Page] 7
Duty £2.0.0
10 p. [per] Cent £0.4.0
Addl. [Additional] duty of p 31.G.3rd [per 31 George III.] £2.0.0
£4.4.0

Proof 4 Horses @ 10/ [£0.10.0] £2.0.0
10 p [per] cent £0.4.0
Addl [Additional] duty £2.0.0
£4.4.0

Pittenweem 13 Feby [February] 1790 I Patrick Plenderleath Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby
Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing Rates & duties I find they
Amount to four pounds four shillings Sterling and that I this day delivered
to James Mercer Treasurer & Coll. [Collector] for Anstruther Easter an exact Duplicate
of the foregoing Account containing My Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants
were duly Served with requisitions of the dates forsaid And that they were
charged According to their own returns on the best information, And that
they were liable to pay the Sums set against their Several names
Patrick Plenderleith Surveyor

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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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