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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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Royal Burgh of Irvine
MALE SERVANTS TAX
From 5th April 1790 to 5th April 1791 By Robert Aiken Surveyor

Proof
1 Bachelor Servant at £1.5.0 is £1.5.0
5 Servants at £1.5.0 is £6.5.0
Total by proof £7.10.0

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 Seven Pounds Ten Shillings
Sterling, And that upon the twenty seventh day of November Current I delivered to Mr John
Watt Collector of said Duties for said Burgh an exact duplicate of and duly examined &
compared with the foregoing Account, which contained my oath that notifications
were delivered or left of the rates foresaid, And that the rates charged in said Account were
just and true to the best of my skill and knowledge , and to the best of my belief
no person liable to the charges was omitted.
[signed] Robert Aiken

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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