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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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Additional Duty on CARRIAGE AND SADDLE HORSE TAX, per 37 Geo. III. Cap. 134.
in the Burgh of Inverary for the Year ending 5th. April 1798
By Peter Campbell Surveyor

9 Horses at £0.3.9 £1.2.6
20 p [per] Cent p [per] 37 Geo:3 £0.4.6
£1.7.0

I Peter Campbell Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon
careful examination of the foregoing Rates and duties I find they amount
to One Pound Seven Shillings Sterling and that upon the [ ]
December 1797 I delivered to Mr Colin Campbell Depute Collector of said Duties
an exact Duplicate of the above Report which contained my Oath that Requisitions
were delivered to the several persons above mentioned or left for them
at their dwelling places & that they are charged from the Returns made by
them or according to the best information that I could obtain and that no
person had been underrated or omitted to the best of my knowledge

Inverary December 1797
Peter Campbell

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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