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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 22 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/22

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Stirling Borough Survey
Male Servants Tax
from the 5th April 1793 to the 5th of April 1794, James Allan Surveyor

I James Allan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful Examin-
ation I find the foregoing duties Amount to the Sum of Eleven Pounds Ster [Sterling] and that upon the
thirtieth day of November last I delivered to Mr William Cowan Collector of said duties an exact
duplicate of this Account duly Examined & Compared which contained my Oath that the preceed-
ing Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions, And, that they were charged in conformity
to their several returns now in my possession & according to my knowledge & belief that they were
liable in said duties.
James Allan, Surveyor

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 22 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/22

Volume 22 contains male servant tax rolls, 1793-1794, for each of the following burghs: Aberdeen, Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Crail, Cullen, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverness, Inveraray, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcaldy, Kirkwall, Lanark, Linlithgow, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Queensferry, St. Andrews, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain and Wigtown. See also volume 21 for the burghs of Elgin, Inveraray, Queensferry and Stirling.

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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