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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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in the Burgh of Forres for Nine months preceeding 5 April
1797 by Robert Flyter assistant Surveyor

Proof
5 Horses @ £0.5.0 each...........£1.5.0
Deduct one quarters duty.........£0.6.3
Duty for nine months...............£0.18.9
Twenty P [Per] Cent thereon.....£0.3.9
Total........................................£1.2.6

I Robert Flyter assistant Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify
that upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing Duties I
find they amount in whole to the sum of One Pound two
Shillings and Six pence Sterling that the preceeding Inhabi-
tants were duly served with Requisitions, that they are
charged according to their Returns to me and that I have
transmitted to Mr Thomas Eddie Collector of said
Duties an Exact Duplicate of the foregoing Account
Robert Flyter Asst [Assistant] Surveyor

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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