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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 8 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/8

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Survey of the Carriage and Horse Tax Arisen within the Town
of Forres from 5th April 1787 to 5th April 1788 by Patrick McDonald Surveyor
[Page] 59

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12 Horses @ £0.10.0 each per annum is £6.0.0

I Patrick McDonald Surveyor aforesaid,do hereby certify that upon carefull
examination of the foregoing Several rates and duties in Carrage and Sadle horses
I find they amount in whole to the Sum of £6.0.0 Sterling and that upon the
eight day of November 1787 I delivered to Humphrey Grant Collector of the said
duties for the Town of Forres aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above accot [account]
duly examined and compared which contained my oath that the foregoing inhabitants
were duly Served with requisitions of the dates aforesaid and that the assessments
are made up from the lists and answers now in my possession
Patrick McDonald Surveyor

Sworn before me at Forres 15th. Decr [December] 1787
Alexander Grant J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 8 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/8

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, Cullen, Crail, Cupar, Dingwall, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dysart, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Fortrose and Rosemarkie, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverary, Inverkeithing, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kilrenny, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Pittenweem, Queensferry (South Queensferry), Renfrew, Rothesay, Rutherglen, St Andrews, Sanquhar, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, and Wigtown, 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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