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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 the Rates and Duties upon Male Servants within the Royal Burgh of Irvine from
5th April 1793 to 5th April 1794 By Robert Aiken

Prooff
2 Bachrs [Bachelors] male Servts [Servants] £1.5.0 each £2.10.0
5 Servts [Servants] at £1.5.0 each £6.5.0
£8.15.0
10 Per Cent thereon £0.17.6
Total by prooff £9.12.6

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify
that upon careful Examination of the foregoing rates
and Duties I find they amount to Eight pounds fifteen
shillings str. [sterling] which with the ten Per Cent thereon being
Seventeen Shillings and Six pence str. [sterling] makes their amount
in whole to nine pounds twelve Shillings and Six pence
Sterl. [Sterling] and that upon the Sixteenth Day of
November Currt. [Current] I caused deliver to Mr William Templeton
Collector of said Duties for said Burgh at his office an
Exact Duplicate of and duly examined & compared with
the foregoing account which contained my oath that
Notifications were delivered or left of the Dates foresaid
That the Rates and duties therein charged were just &
true to the best of my skill & knowledge & to the best
of my belief no person liable to be charged was omitted

Robert Aiken

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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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