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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 Irvine
MALE SERVANTS TAX
From 5th April 1798 to 5th April 1790 By Robert Aiken Surveyor

Prooff
3 Serv [Servants] at £1.5.0 each £3.15.0
Total by Prooff £3.15.0

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon careful -
examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole to Three pounds
fifteen shillings Sterling, And that upon the Seventeenth Day of March Current -
I delivered to Mr John Watt 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 Accot [Account] were just and true to the best of my Skill and
Knowledge, And to the best of my belief no person liable to be charged was omitted

Robert Aiken Surveyor

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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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