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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 6 - Counties (A-K) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/6

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I Neil McInnes Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon
Carefull examination of the foregoing rates & duties They amount
in whole to One hundred & Eighty three pound sterling And
I do make oath that requisitions were left or made with the whole
foregoing Inhabitants, or at their dwelling houses of the respe
ctive dates aforesaid To return their respective lists as therein
required And which they are Charged to the rates & duties
sett against thier severall names Neil McInnes Surveyor
Sworn before me the 7th day
of January 1788 years. Charles Gordon J P [Justice of the Peace]
John Durno Collr [Collector]

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 6 - Counties (A-K) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/9/6

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the counties of Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Bute, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, Haddingtonshire (East Lothian), Fife, Forfarshire (Angus), Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, and Kirkcudbrightshire, between the 5th of April 1787 until the 5th of April 1788.

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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