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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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Report Survey Male Servants Tax Burgh of Inveraray for the
Year ending 5th April 1792 By Duncan MacNuier Surveyor

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1 Rate at £2.10.0 £2.10.0
3 Rate @ £1.5.0 £3.15.0 £6.5.0
10 P Cent on £6.5.0 of Duty £0.12.6

I Duncan Macnuier Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify That upon carefull examination of the foregoing
Several rates and dutys I find they ammount in whole to Six pounds Seventeen shillings and sixpence And
that upon the 21st February 1792 I delivered to Peter McArthur Depute Collector of the Cess for
Argyllshire an exact Duplicate of the above account duly examined and compared with the fore
going which contained my oath that notices were given to the whole foregoing Inhabitants or left at
their dwelling houses of the date foresaid, And that the above Account was made up from the returns,
made to these notices, and from the best information I could obtain - Duncan MacNuier

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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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