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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 12 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/12

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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX in the Burgh of Stranraer
from the 5th April 1788 to April 1789 by Anthony Macmillan Surveyor

Proof 1 male servant at £1.5.0 is £1.5.0

I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing several
rates and duties I find the amount in whole to be one pound five Shillings Sterling and that upon the
Twelfth day of Novemr [November] one thousand seven hundred & eighty eight years I delivered to Mr James
McDowall Collector of the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the foregoing
which contained my oath that requisitions were left with the several foregoing Inhabitants or at their
dwelling places of the dates annexed I their respive [respective] names that were to be charged with the Sums
hereby certified to be due from them

Anthony Macmillan

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 12 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/12

Volume 12 contains male servant tax rolls, 1788-1789, for each of the following burghs: Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Cullen, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Elgin, Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkwall, Lanark, Linlithgow, Montrose, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Queensferry, Rothesay, 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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