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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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A Survey of the Duties on Male Servants in the Royal Burgh of Lanark for the Year from the 5th of April 1788 to the 5th of April 1789
MALE SERVANTS TAX
Surveyed the 5th day of August 1789 By William Mure Surveyor

I William Mure Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby Certify that, upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing
Several Rates & Duties, I find they Amount in Whole to One pound five Shillings Sterling and that upon the
-- I delivered to -- Collector of the said duties for the
Burgh aforesaid, an Exact Duplicate of the above Account, Duly Examined and Compared with the
foregoing, which Contained my Oath, that Notices 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
William Mure
Glasgow 5th day of January 1790 Sworn before me James Corbet JP [Justice of the Peace]


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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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