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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 20 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/20

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Survey of the Male Servants Tax in the Borough of Queensferry
from the 5th April 1792 to the 5th April 1793. James Watsone Surveyor

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1. Male Servant @ £1.5.0........................£1.5.0
To the 10 pct thereof...............................£0.2.6.
Totall £1.7.6

I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that the above Mr. Morris Ross
was duly served with a Requisition and Notice whereby he was to be charged with the
above one pound Seven Shillings & Six pence Sterl. [Sterling] as the duty of the above Male Servant
And that upon the Seventh day of this current month of October I delivered to Mr.
Robert Chapman Collector for the foresaid Borough an Exact Dupplicate hereof
which contained my oath thereupon to the above effect
Linlithgow 18th October James Watsone Surveyor.
1792

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 20 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/20

Volume 20 contains male servant tax rolls, 1792-1793, 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, Kinghorn, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcaldy, Kirkwall, Lanark, Linlithgow, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Queensferry, 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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