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I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing [Duties]
I find it amounts in whole to Fourty-nine pounds ten Shillings Sterling, and that upon the -- day
-- 1789 I delivered Alexander Garden Esqr Collector of the said duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact
Duplicate of the above Account or Survey (as will Appear from -- hereunto fixed) duly examined
and compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath that notices were left with the Several
persons before named or at their dwelling-houses of the dates annexed to their respective names,
requiring them within fourteen days to give in a list of their Horses retained and employed by them from
the fifth day of April 1787 to the fifth day of April 1788, and that the said Account or Survey is made
out from the lists Returned to me, and from the best information I could procure of the Horses of those
whose lists were deficient, also of others who neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of
notices left with them as aforesaid
William Greig Surveyor.


Horse Tax
Kincardine Sh: [Shire]
1789

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

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 1788 until the 5th of April 1789.

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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