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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 4 - Counties (H-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/4

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I James Allan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify
that upon carefull Examination of the foregoing Rates & dutys they
Amount in Whole to Seventy nine pounds 10 Shillings Sterling, and that
upon the 30th Novemr. [November] last I delivered to Mr. Thomas Wingate Collector
of the said duties for the County aforesaid an exact duplicate of the
above Account duly examined & compared with the foregoing which
contained my Oath that Notices were left with the several Inhabitants
or at their dwelling houses that they were to be charged with the sums
hereby Certified to be due from them
James Allan Surveyor
Alloa 11th Decemr. [December]
1786

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 4 - Counties (H-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/4

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the counties of East Lothian (Haddingtonshire), Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Nairnshire, Orkney, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland (lordship of Zetland), Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire), and Wigtownshire, between the 5th of April 1786 until the 5th of April 1787.

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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