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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 Male Servants in the Royal Burgh of Lanerk for the year from the 5th of April 1787
to the 5th of April 1788 by William Mure Surveyor

[Page] 73

Proof
1 Male Servant at £1.5.0 per Year is £1.5.0
Grand Total £1.5.0

I William Mure Surveyor Aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that, upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing several Rates &
Duties, I find they amount in whole to one Pound Five Shillings and that upon the 12th November 1787 I Delivered to
James Waggateshaw Collector of the Said Duties for the Royal Burgh Aforesaid, an Exact Duplicate of the above Account
Duely Examined & 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. by me William Mure Surveyor

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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