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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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Inverkeithing 27
[Page] 81
Carriage and Horse Tax.

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaed do hereby Certify that upon
Careful Examination of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties
I find they Amount in whole to the Sum of Two pounds Ten
Shillings Sterlling and that upon the Fifteenth day of November
I delivered to John Ranken Collector for the Burgh aforesaed an
Exact Duplicat of the above Account duly Examined and
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

Charles Robb Surveyor

Transcriber's notes

In the original there is only one column for both Carriage and Saddle horses.

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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