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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 5 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/5

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NORTH BERWICK 40 -- [Page] 107
Carriage and Horse Tax
in the Royalty of North Berwick from 5 April 1786 to 5 April 1787 by Henry Watson Surveyor

Proof 3 Carriage Horses at 10/ [£0.10.0] Each £1.10.0
12 Saddle Horses at 10/ £6.0.0
£7.10.0

I Henry Watson Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon
carefull Examination of the forgoing several Rates and Duty's I find
They amount to the Sum of Sevin Pounds Ten Shillings Sterling
And that upon the -- I delivird Alexander
Crawford Collector of the said Duty's for the Royalty of North
Berwick an exact duplicate of the forgoing Acct [Account] duely examind
and compared with the forgoing, And which contained my Oath
that the Persons therein mentioned are charged the Sums sett
against their Respective Names According to their Answers
made to my Requisitions, or according to my knowledge and
beleif That They are liable to the said Dutys
Henry Watson Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 5 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/5

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the Scottish burghs of Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Arbroath (Aberdrothock), Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Burntisland, Campbeltown, Crail, Cupar, Dingwall, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dysart, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Fortrose and Rosemarkie, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverary, Inverkeithing, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Pittenweem, Queensferry (South Queensferry), Rothesay, Rutherglen, St Andrews, Sanquhar, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, and Wigtown, 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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