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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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Survey of the Duty on Carriage and Horse Tax in the Royal Burgh of Lanark for the Year from
5th of April 1786 to the 5th of April 1787 By William Mure Surveyor

[Page] 75
Lanark 34

Prooff
9 Carriage or Saddle Horses at 10/ £0.5.0 ] Each per Year is £4.10.0

Grand Total £4.10.0

I William Mure Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby Certify that
upon Carefull examination of the foregoing Several Rates
& Duties, I find the amount in whole to Four pounds
Ten Shillings Sterling & that upon the -- I de-
livered to James Waggateshaw Collector of the said Duties
for the Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the
above Account, Duly Examined & compared with
foregoing, which contained my Oath that Notices
were left with the several Inhabitants or at their
Dwelling-Houses of the Dates annexed to their Respec-
tive Names that they were to be charged with the sums
hereby certified to be due from them
by me Wiliam 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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