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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 MALE SERVANTS TAX Inveraray for
the Year ending 5 April 1790 By Duncan Mac Nuier Surveyor
Proof
1 Rates @ 50/- [£2.10.0] £2.10.0
4 Rates @25/- [£1.5.0] £5.0.0
£7.10.0

I Duncan Mac Nuier Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing several
Rates and dutys I find they ammount in whole to Seven pounds ten shillings; And that upon the 22d March
1790 I delivered to Donald Campbell Esqr Collr [Collector] of the said dutys for the Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate
of the above Accompt duly examined and Compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath that
Requisitions were given to the whole persons above named, And that the above Accompt was made up from
the Returns made to me in consequence thereof; And from the best information I could otherwise obtain.
Duncan Mac Nuier
Inveraray 22d March 1790

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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