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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 24 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/24

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Report of MALE SERVANTS TAX. in Dunfermline for the
Year Ending 5th April 1795 By Peter Colvile Surveyor

I Peter Colvile Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that the foregoing duties Amt [Amount] to the Sum of One
pound Seven Shillings and Sixpence Sterling & I do make Oath that the Foregoing Inhabitant was duly served
with a requisition of the date foresaid And that he was Charged According to his return to me or from the best
Information Peter Colvile Surveyor
William Anderson Collr [Collector]
At Torrburn the )
day of October 1794 Years)
Before me) Charles Preston JP [Justice of the Peace]
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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 24 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/24

Volume 24 contains male servant tax rolls, 1794-1795, for each of the following burghs: Aberdeen, Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Crail, Cullen, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverness, Inveraray, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcaldy, Kirkwall, Lanark, Linlithgow, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Perth, Queensferry, Rutherglen, St. Andrews, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain and Wigtown.

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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