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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 14 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/14

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Royal Burgh of Rothsay
Male Servants Tax
From 5th. April 1789 to 5th April 1790 By Robert Aiken Surveyor
[Page] 105

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3 Servants at £1.5.0: £3.15.0.
Total £3.15.0

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify That upon
carefull examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount in
whole to Three pounds fifteen shillings Sterling And that upon the Thirteenth
day of March current I caused to be delivered to Mr. John Wright principal Collector of
said Duties for said Burgh an exact Duplicate of, and duly examined and
compared with the foregoing account, which contained my oath that Notifications
were delivered or left of the dates foresaid, and that the Rates charged in said
account were just & true to the best of my Skill & knowledge; And to the
best of my belief no Person liable to be charged was omitted.
Robert Aiken Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 14 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/14

Volume 14 contains male servant tax rolls, 1789-1790, for each of the following burghs: Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Cullen, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkwall, Lanark, Linlithgow, Montrose, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Queensferry, Rothesay, St. Andrews, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain and Wigtown.

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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