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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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DUMBARTON 13 -- [Page] 29

Carriage and Horse Tax from 5th April 1786
to 5th April 1787 by John Veitch Surveyor

Proof
13 Horses at 10/ [£0.10.0] each is £6.10.0

I John Veitch Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that
upon careful examination of the foregoing several rates and
duties I find they amount in whole to Six pound ten Shillings
Sterling and that upon the 23rd of Decr. [December] 1786 I transmitted
to John McAluy Collector for the Burgh aforesaid an
exact duplicate of the above Acot. [Account] duly examined and
compared with the foregoing which contained my oath
that requisitions were left with the several Inhabitants
or at their dwelling houses of the dates annexed to
their respective names and that the asesments were
made from the answers sent me & now in my
possession
John Veitch junr. [junior] 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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