Was this a tax or cattle and horses or was it a bond requirement?  Such bonds were required in an attempt to disrupt the gangs stealing livestock up North and selling them in the Carolinas.

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Subject: [VA-HIST] Taxation in Colonial Virginia

I've noticed that in addtion to a tax on tithables some counties, like Augusta, levied a tax on every head of cattle driven into/through the county and a tax on every horse brought into the county.

Was this a universal practice? Is there a source which consolidates these forms of taxation, hopefully along with the amount of the tax?




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