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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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Supplement to the Duties on Carriage & Saddle Horses in the Royal Burgh of
Rutherglen for the Year from the 5th. April 1786 to the 5th April 1787 By
William Mure

Prooff
2 Carriage or Sadle Horses at 10/ [£0.5.0] Each per year is £1.0.0
Grand Total £1.0.0

I William Mure Surveyor of aforesaid ,do hereby certify,
That, upon carefull Examination of the foregoing several
Rates and Duties, I find they Amount, in whole, to
One pound Sterling & that, upon the sixteenth day
of Febr [February] I delivered to Mr David Park Collector of the
said Duties for the Burgh 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, of the
dates Annexed to their Respective Names that
They were to be Charged with the Sums hereby
Certified to be due from them by me
William Mure 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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