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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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A Survey of the Rates & duties upon Servants in the Town of Stirling
from 5th Jul 1777 to 25th March 17778 P [Per] James Allan Surveyor

I James Allan Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby certify that upon
carefull Examination of the forgoing Assessments they Amount in whole to One pound
Ten Shilling Sterling & that upon the 10th day of February last, I delivered to Mr, John
McGibbon Collector of the said dutys for the Town aforesaid an Exact duplicate of the
above Account, duly Examined and compared with the foregoing which contained my
Oath that the above was a faithfull Charge taken from the Gentlemen's lists given in &
my own information.
James Allan Surveyor
Alloa 3d, April 1779
Sworn before me James Alexander Sher Subst. [Sheriffs Substitute]

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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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