Skip to main content

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

Transcribe other information

[Page] 9

A Survey of the Duties on Carriage and Riding Horses arisen in the Burgh of
Arbroath for one Year from the 5th of April 1787 to the 5th April 1788 by
Daniel Ross Surveyor

I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforsaid do hereby Certify that upon Careull
examination of the foregoing Duties they amount in whole to Ten pounds
Sterling and I do make Oath that Nottices were left with the Several
Persons before named or at there dwelling houses of the respective
dates aforesaid requiring them to give in a list of the Horses kept
and used by them for Carriage and Riding from the 5th of April
1787 to the 5th of April 1788 and that the forgoing list is made
out from the list returned to me and from the best information
I could procure of the Horses of those who neglected or refused
to return a list thereof in terms of the Nottices left with them as
aforesaid

At Dundee the 31st day of Octr [October] 1787 Daniel Ross Surveyor
John Colvile Collector
Sworn before
John Guild Baillie

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).

View more volumes for Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records)