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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 of the Duties on the Male Servants in the Royal Burgh of Lanark Keept from the 5th of April 1789 to 5th of April 1790
and Surveyed on the 3rd of August 1790 by William Mure Surveyor

I William Mure Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that, upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties I find
they amount in Whole to One Pound Five Shillings Sterling, and that upon the.............I Delivered to
James Waggateshaw Collector of the said Duties for the -- Aforesaid, an Exact Duplicate of the Above Account Duely Examined and
Compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath, that Requisitions 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 Surveyor

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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