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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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Survey of the Additional Duty on CARRIAGE and SADDLE HORSE TAX, per 37 Geo. III. Cap. 134.
Burgh of Dumbarton By Alexander Connell Surveyer

2 p [per] Cent p [per] 37 George 3d £0.1.6
Total £0.9.0

I Alexander Connell Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify
that upon careful examination I find the foregoing
dutie amounting to Nine Shillings Sterling and I do
further certify that this day I delivered to John McAulay
Collector of said duties a duplicate of the foregoing
Account duly compared which contained an Oath
that the foregoing Inhabitants were served with
requsitions and they are charged the sum to their
names severally sett either agreeable to their returns
or the best of my knowlege and belief that by law
they are liable therein
Dumbarton 27th Feby [February] 1797
Alexander Connel

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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