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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 18 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/18

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Survey of MALE SERVANTS TAX. Ending 5th. April 1792
By David Hutcheson Surveyor

1 Servant £1.5.0
Duty of 10 p.c. [per cent] £0.2.6
£1.7.6

I David Hutcheson Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon carefull
Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties find that they amount in whole to One pound Seven shillings
and six pence sterling and that this day I delivered to John McAulay Collector of the said duties for
the Burgh of Dumbarton an exact duplicate of the above account, which contained my oath
that a Requisition was left with the foregoing Inhabitant or at his dwelling and that he
was to be charged according to his return, or my information knowledge or belief that he was
liable in the said duties ~ David Hutcheson

At Glasgow this 29 day of December 1791

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 18 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/18

Volume 18 contains male servant tax rolls, 1791-1792, for each of the following burghs: Aberdeen, Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Cullen, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcaldy, Kirkwall, Lanark, Linlithgow, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Queensferry, 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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