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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 Survey Carriage and Saddle Horse Tax. Burgh of Inveraray
for the Year ending 5th. April 1798 By Peter Campbell Surveyor

Proof
9 Rates at £.. 10 [£0.10.0] ..... £4.10.0
3 Rares at £.. 15 [£0.15.0] ..... £2.5.0
[Total] ..... £6.15.0
10 p [per] Cent p [per] 31.Geo:3 [George III] £0.13.6
[Total] £7.8.6
Addl. [Additional] Duty p [per] 36 Geo:3 [George III] £6.15.0 [Total] £14.3.6

I Peter Campbell Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon careful examination
of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount to Fourteen Pounds Three Shillings
and Sixpence Sterling and that upon the twenty Day of December 1797 I delivered
to Mr Colin Campbell Depute Collector of said Duties an exact Duplicate of the foregoing
Report duly examined and compared which contained my Oath that Requisitions
were delivered to the several persons above mentioned or left for them at their dwelling
places and that they are charged from their Answers or according to the best informa-
-tion that I could obtain, and that no person had been under rated or omitted who
ought to have been included therein to the best of my knowledge

Peter Campbell
Inveraray December
1797 }

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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