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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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101 Male Servants at £1.5.0 each is £126.5.0
16 Male Servants at £1.10.0 each is £24.0.0
17 Male Servants at £1.15.0 each is £29.15
134---------------------------------------£180.0.0
11 Batchelors at £1.5.0 over & above £13.15.0
Grand total £193.15.0

I George Storie Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing several Rates and Duties I find they
amount in whole to One hundred and Ninety three pounds, Fifteen Shillings Sterling. That upon this Eighteenth Day of December Current
I delivered to John Carlile Collector of the said 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 be charged with the Sums hereby Certified to be due from them
Given under my hand at Glasgow 18 December 1787
George Storie

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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