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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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Survey of MALE SERVANTS TAX. in the Burgh of Dumbarton
From the 5 April 1793 to 5 April 1794 By David Hutcheson Surveyor

I David Hutcheson Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull exami
nation of the foregoing dutys find they amount to one pound Seven
shillings & sixpence Sterling, and that this day I delivered to John Mcaulay
Collector of these duties an exact copy of this account carefully examined &
compared and which did bear my oath that the said George McFarlan
was duly served with a requisition, and that he is charged agreeable to
his return and the Law in the duties aforesaid
Glasgow 31 Decr [December] 1793
David Hutcheson

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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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