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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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108 Servants ......at £1.5.0 each £135.0.0
15 Servants ........at £1.10.0 each £22.10.0
16 Servants ........at £1.15.0 each £28.0.0
139 Servants Amounting to ..........£185.10.0
14 Batchelor Servants ...£1.5.0 over and above the duty £17.10.0
Total £203.0.0
1 Servant (in addition to 6) £1.15.0
Total £204.15.0

I George Storie Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify That upon careful examination of the foregoing Several Rates & Duties
I find they Amount in whole to Two hundred and four pounds Fifteen Shillings Sterling and that upon the Thirty first
day of December last I delivered to John Carlile Collector of the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the
above Accounts [saving one pound Fifteen since added and Certified] duly examined and Compared with the foregoing which contained
my Oath that Notices by Requisitions were left with the Several Inhabitants or at their Dwelling houses of the dates Annexed
to their respective Names that they were to be charged with the Sums hereby Certified to be due from them
Given under my hand at Glasgow this fourth January 1790
George Storie 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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