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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 the Rates & Duties on Male Servants in the Burgh of Montrose for one Year Commencing the 5th of
of April 1787 and ending on the 5th day of April 1788 by Daniel Ross Surveyor

I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing Rates
and I find they amount in Whole to Eighteen pounds fifteen Shillings Sterling and I do make oath that
Notices were left with the Several Inhabitants or at there dwelling houses of the respective dates aforesaid
Requiring them to give in a list of the Servants retained or employ by them from the 5th of April 1787
to the 5th 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 refused or neglected to return a list
thereof in terms of the Nottices with them as aforesaid
Daniel Ross Surveyor
At Dundee the 7th day of November 1787
Sworn before John Guild Baillie

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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