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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 arisen in the Burgh of Forfar for one Year commencing the fifth day
of April 1787 and ending the fifth Day of April 1788 by Daniel Ross Surveyor

I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull Examination of the foregoing
Duties they amount in whole to one pound five Shilling Sterling and I do make Oath that
Nottice was left with the above mentioned thereon before named or at his Dwelling House of the date
aforesaid requiring him to give in a list of the Servants named or employed by him from the fifth
Day of April 1787 to the 5th day of April 1788 and that the foregoing Survey is made out from
the list returned to me and from the best information I could procure of the Male Servants of those
who neglected or refused to return or list thereof in terms of the Nottices left with them aforesaid

At Dundee the 7th day of November 1787 Daniel Ross Surveyor
Sworn before John Guild Baillie James Scott Collr. [Collector]

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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