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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 Male Servants Tax in the Borough of
Queensferry from the 5th April 1790 to the 5th April 1791. By James Watsone Surveyor

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2 Men Servants @ £1.5.0 each.......................................£2.10.0

I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon careful examination of the
forgoing Rates and Duties I find that they amount in whole to the Sum of Two pounds ten
Shillings Ster. [Sterling] And that upon the Eighteenth day of November current I delivered to Mr.
Robert Chapman Collector of the said Borough an exact Duplicate of this Survey which
contained my oath that the several persons beforenamed were duly served with Requisitions
and Notices whereby they were to be charged with the several Duties hereby Certified to be
due by them.
James Watsone Surveyor
Linlithgow 30th Novemr [November]
1790

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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