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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 33 - Counties (R-W) and Burghs (see 'More info' for county/burgh details), E326/9/33

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Report of the
Additional Duty on CARRIAGE and SADDLE HORSE TAX, per 37 Geo. III. Cap. 134. within
the Royalty of St Andrews
from 5 July 1797 To 5 April 1798.
Patrick Plenderleith Surv. [Surveyor]

Proof 3 Horses @ £0.3.9 £0.11.3
20 p [per] Cent £0.2.3 £0.13.6

Pittenweem 13 Feby [February] 1798 I Patrick Plenderleath Surveyor
aforsaid Do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the
foregoing rates and duties I find that they amount to Thirteen
Shillings & Sixpence Str. [Sterling] And that I this day delivered to [ ]
[ ] Collector for the Burgh of St Andrews a full Duplicate
of this Account Containing My Oath that the preceeding Inhabi:
tant was duly Served with a requisition of the date forsaid
And that he was to be charged According to his own return
And that he was liable to pay the Sum set against his name
Patrick Plenderleath Surveyor

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 33 - Counties (R-W) and Burghs (see 'More info' for county/burgh details), E326/9/33

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the counties of Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland (lordship of Zetland), Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire), and Wigtownshire, as well as the burghs of Aberdeen, Annan, Arbroath (Aberbrothock), Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Cullen, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dundee, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, Inverness, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Linlithgow, Montrose, North Berwick, Perth, St Andrews, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, and Wigtown, between the 5th of July 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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