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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 the MALE SERVANTS TAX. in the Town of Linlithgow from
the 5th. April 1791 to the 5th. April 1792. By James Watsone Surveyor

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2 Servants...@£1.5.0 each........£2.10.0
To 10 Pct [per cent] thereof.... £0.5.0
Totall £2.15.0

I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that the above Mr William Hamilton
was duly served with a Requisition and Notice whereby he was to be charged with the
Duties of the above mentioned Servants amounting in whole to Two pounds fifteen shillings
Sterl. [Sterling]. And that upon the thirteenth day of October last I delivered to Mr William Napier
Collector for the foresaid Borough an exact Dupplicate of this Survey which contained
my oath to the effect foresaid.
James Watsone Surveyor
Linlithgow 2nd. November
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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