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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 2 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/2

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An Assessment of the rates of duties upon Servants within the burgh of Burntisland retained or Employed from 5th July 1777 to 25th March 1778 years By Charles Robb Assessor

Prooff 1 Servant @ 15/- [£0.15.0] Employed from 5th July 1777 to the 25th March 1778 -- £0.15.0

I Charles Robb Assessor Aforesaid Do hereby certifie that upon carefull
Examination of the foregoing rates & duties I find they amount to Fifteen
Shillings Sterling and that upon the Twenty Second day of February
I delivered to Mr. Henry Watt Collector for the Burgh aforesaid an exact
duplicate of the above Accompt duly examined and compared with
the foregoing which contained my oath that a notice was left with
the foresaid Inhabitant That he was to be charged with the sum
hereby certified to be due from him
Charles Robb Assessor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 2 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/2

Volume 2 contains male servant tax rolls, 1777-1778, for each of the following burghs: Aberdeen, Arbroath, Ayr, Burntisland, Campbeltown, Cupar, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kirkcaldy, Montrose, Perth, Rutherglen, St. Andrews, Stirling, 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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