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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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520 Carriage and Sadle Horses at 10/ [£0.10.0] Each p [per] year is £260.0.0
Grand Total £260.0.0

I William Mure Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Carefull Examination
of the foregoing Several Rates & Duties I find they Amount in Who [Whole to ]
Two Hundred an Sixty Pounds Sterling and that upon the twelveth day of Feb [February]
I Delivered To James Hamilton Esqr Collector of the said Duties for the Shire
aforesaid an Exact Duplicate of the Above Account duely Examined & Compared
with the foregoing which contained my oath that Notices were left with the
Several Inhabitants or at their Dwelling houses of the Dates Annexed to their
Respective names that they were Charged with the Sums hereby Certified [to ]
be due from them
by me William Mure Surv [Surveyor]



Horse Tax
Lanerk Shire

N0 6
Exd [Examined]

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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