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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 St Andrews from the 5th April 1789
to 5th April 1790 by Charles Robb Surveyor


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3 servants at £1.5.0 each is £3.15.0
4 servants at £1.10.0 each is £6.0.0
£9.15.0

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaed do hereby certify that upon careful Examination of the foregoing duties I find they
Amount in whole to Nine Pounds Fifteen Shillings Sterlling and that upon the Eighteen day of November
I delivered to Andrew Gullen Collector of the saed duties for the Burgh aforesaed an Exact duplicate 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 annexed 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 are deficient Neglected or refused
to give in a list thereof in terms of the Nottices left with them as aforesaed.

Charles Robb 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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