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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 16 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/16

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A Survey of MALE SERVANTS TAX. Arrising in the Town of
Banff from the 5th April 1790 to the 5th April 1791 By Patrick Mdonald Survyr [Surveyor]


Prooff 2 Batchelors Servant @ 25/- [£1.5.0] each......£2.10.0
..........15 Servants...............@ 25/- [£1.5.0] each.... £18.15.0
...........4 Servants................@ 30/- [£1.10.0] each.... £6.0.0
...................................................................................£27.5.0


I Patrick Mdonald Surveyor aforsaid do hereby Certify that Upon carful examination of the forgoing Rates and
duties on Male Servants I find they Amount in whole to twenty seven pound five Shillings Sterl. [Sterling] And that
Upon the 2nd Dcemb. [December] I transmited James Anderson Collector of Said duties in the Town of Banff an
exact duplicate of the above Acct. [Account] examined and Compared with the forgoing which contained my Oath
that the Several Inhabitants were Served with Requisitions and the Assessment Made Up
from the lists and Answers in my possession .. Patrick McDonald Survr. [Surveyor]
Sworn before me John Grant J.P [Justice of the Peace]

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 16 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/16

Volume 16 contains male servant tax rolls, 1790-1791, for each of the following burghs: Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Cullen, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Elgin, 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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