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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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Survey of MALE SERVANTS TAX in the Burgh of Dumbarton
from 5 April 1787 to 5 April 1788 by David Hutcheson Surveyor
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I David Hutcheson Surveyor or aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon careful
examination of the foregoing several Rates and Duties I find they amount
in whole to the Sum of Two Pounds & fifteen Shillings Sterling and that upon the
date hereof I delivered to Mr John McAulay Collector of the Duties for
the Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above Account duly examined
and Compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath that Notices were
left with the several Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of the Dates
annexed to their respective Names that they were to Charged with the
Sums hereby Certified to be due from them
[signed] David Hutcheson Glasgow 28 Decr [December] 1787

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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