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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 13 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/13

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Survey
Of the Rates and Duties upon
Male Servants within the Country
Parishes of Bute Shire from 5th April
1789 to 5th April 1790 By
Robert Aiken Surveyor

Surveyor Generals Copy
6

Exd GS [Examined General Surveyor]

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 13 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/13

Volume 13 contains male servant tax rolls, 1789-1790, for the following counties: Aberdeenshire, Ayrshire, Argyll, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Buteshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire and Midlothian. Royal burghs are covered in volume 14.

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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