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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

Exd. GS. [Examined General Surveyor]

Surveyor Generals Copy
22

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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