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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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[Page] 55 -- FORFAR 21

A Survey of the dutie on Carriage and Riding Horses arisen in the Burgh of Forfar
[for] one year commencing the 5th April 1786 & ending the 5th April 1787 by William Greig Surveyor

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing
Duties I find they amount in whole to Seven pounds ten Shillings Sterling, and that upon the
-- day of -- 1787 I delivered Archibald Thornton Collector of the Said duties for the Burgh
aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account (as will appear from -- ) duly examined
and Compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath that nottices were left with the
Several persons before named or at their dwelling houses of the dates annexed to their respective
names, requiring them within fourteen days to give in a list of their Horses retained or employed
by them from the fifth day of April 1785 to the fifth day of April 1786, and that the
the said Account or Survey is made out from the lists returned to me, and from the best information I could
procure of the Horses of those who neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the
Nottices left with them as aforesaid

William Greig 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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