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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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Survey of MALE SERVANTS TAX. for the Burgh of Dumbarton
taken in 1789 Agreeable to the Number kept from 5th April 1788 till 5th April 1789 by David Hutcheson Surveyor
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I David Hutcheson Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull Examination
of the foregoing Rates and duties find they amount in whole to the sum of One pound
five shillings sterling and that this day I delivered to John McAulay Collector of said
duties an exact duplicate of the same containing my Oath that notices were left that
the said Inhabitant or at his dwelling house, that he was to be charged with
the sum hereby cerifyed to be due from him ~ At Glasgow this 31 Decemr. [December] 1789
David Hutcheson

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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