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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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A Survey of the [MALE SERVANTS TAX.] in the Burgh of Jedburgh from the 5th of
April 1794 to the 5th of April 1795 By George Rodger Surveyor

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3 Bachelors Servants @ £1.5.0 each is £3.15.0
3 Servants @ £1.5.0 each is £3.15.0
£7.10.0
£7.10.0 @ 10 per Cent is £0.15.0
Sum Total £8.5.0

I George Rodger Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon carefull Examination I find the foregoing, Duties amount to
Eight pounds five Shillings Sterling and that upon the twenty second day of November instant I transmitted to Mr. John Clark
Collector of these Duties an Exact Duplicate of this Accompt Containing my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly served with
Requisitions of the dates foresaid and that they were Charged according to their several Returns, or the best information and that they were to be
charged with the sums hereby certified to be due by them.
Jedburgh 22nd Novr. [November] 1794 George Rodger Surveyor

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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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