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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 Royalty of North Berwick
from the 5 July 1797 to the 5 April 1798

Proof 9 Horses @ £0.3.9 £1.13.9
20 P [Per] Cent £1.13.9 £0.6.9
£2.0.6

I John Menzies Surveyor do hereby certify that upon carefull
examination of the foregoing Rates and duties I find that they
amount on the whole to the sum of Two pounds and six pence
Sterling and that upon the Ninth day of October I delivered to
Francis Buchan Collector of these duties an exact duplicate
of this account duly examined and Compared which Contained my
Oath that Requisitions were sent to the foregoing Inhabitants of
the preceding date and that they were charged the sums annexed to
each of their names according to the answers they made said
Requisitions or according to my knowledge and belief that they
are liable in these duties
John Menzies 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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