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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 10 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/10

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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants arisen in the Burgh of Breckine for One Year
commencing the 5th of April 1787 and ending the 5th day of April 1788 by Daniel Ross Surveyor

I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties
they amount in whole to three pounds fifteen Shillings Sterling, and I do make Oath that Nottices were left
with the Several Inhabitants before named or at there Dwelling Houses of the respective dates aforesaid requesting them
to give in a list of the Servants retained or employed by them from the 5th of April 1787 to the 5th of April 1788 and that the
foregoing Survey is made out from the list returned to me, & from the best information I could procure of the Male
Servants of those who neglected or refused to return a list thereof in terms of the Nottices left with them as aforesaid

Daniel Ross Surveyor
Alexander Vallentyne Coll. [Collector]

At Dundee the 7th day of Nov. [November] 1787
Sworn before John Guild Baillie

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 10 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/10

Volume 10 contains male servant tax rolls, 1787-1788, for each of the following burghs: Aberdeen, Annan, Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Cullen, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkwall, Lanark, Linlithgow, Montrose, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Queensferry, Rothesay, Rutherglen, St. Andrews, Stirling, Stranraer, and Tain.

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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