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

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I Patrick McDonald Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby Certify
that upon Careful examination of the foregoing rates and duties
on Carriage & Sadle horses I find they Amount in whole to
forty four pound ten Shills [Shilling] Sterg. [Sterling] and that I delivered to John Reid
Collector of said duties for the County of Banff an exact dup
licate of the forgoing Acct. [Account] duly examined and Compared Which
Contained My Oath that Notices were left with the Several
Inhabitants And the Assessments Made up from the lists and
Answers now in My possion. [Possession] Patrick MacDonald Surveyor
Sworn before me at Forres 2d Jany [January] 1789 Alexander Grant J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

Horse Tax
County of
Banff
1788
Exd. [Examined] GS. [General Surveyor]
No.4

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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