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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 the Rates & duties on male servants arisen in the Burgh of
Brechin for one Year from the 5th April 1790 to the 5th April 1791 by Daniel Ross Surveyor

I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforsaid do herby Certify that upon Careful Examination
I find the forgoing duties amount to two pounds ten Shill [Shillings] Sterg [Sterling] and that
upon the ... Day of .... I Delivered to Mr Alexander Vallentyne Collector of the said duties
for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of this Account Which Contained
my oath that the proceding inhabitants were duely served with Requisitions
of the dates aforsaid and that they were to be Charged Confirmable to their
several returns to me or from the Best Information I could procure
At Dundee 5th Jany [January] 1791 Daniel Ross Surveyor

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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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