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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 Arbroath for one Year Commencing
the fifth day of April 1787 to the 5th Day of April 1788 by Daniel Ross Surveyor

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I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing duties
they amount in whole to Seven pound Ten Shillings Sterling and I do make Oath that Notices were
left with the Several Inhabitants before named or at there dwelling Houses of the respective dates aforesaid
Requiring them to give in a list of the Male Servants retained or employed by them from the fifth of
April 1787 to the 5th day of April 1788 and that the forgoing Survey is made out from the list returned
to me and from the best information I could procure of the Servants of those who neglected or refused
to return a list thereof in terms of the Notices left with them as aforesaid

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