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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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Survey in the Burgh of Dumfermline from the 5th April 1789 to
5th April 1790 by Charles Robb Surveyor

Prooff
2 Servants at £1.5.0 Each is £2.10.0
£2.10.0

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaed do hereby certify that upon careful Examination of the foregoing duties I find they amount
in whole to Two pounds Ten Shillings Sterlling and that upon the Twenty fourt day of November I delivered to James
Blackwood Collector of the saed duties for the Burgh aforesaed an Exact duplicat of the above Account duly Examined and
compared with the foregoing which Contained My Oath that Nottices were left with the Several parsons befor named or
at their dwelling houses of the dates anexed to their respective names requiring them within fourteen dayes to give in alist
of their Carriage or Saddle horses (retained or Employed by them from the 5 day of April 1789 to the 5 day of April 1790 and that
the saed Account or Survey is made Out from the list returned to me and from the Best Information I could procure of the Carriage or
Saddle horses (of those whose lists ar deficient Neglected or refused to givein alist thereof in termes of the Nottices left with them as Aforesaed.

Charles Robb 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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