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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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I George Storie Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon careful I find the foregoing Duties Amount
to Two hundred and sixteen pounds nineteen Shillings and six pence Sterling and that this day I
delivered to John Carlile Collector of these Duties an exact duplicate of this Account duly examined
and compared which contained my Oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were served with
Requisitions and that they were charged conform to their Returns or my knowledge and belief that
they were liable in said duties Glasgow 27 December 1793 George Storie Surveyor

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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