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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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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. in the Borough of Linlithgow
from the 5th April 1794 to the 5th April 1795.... James Watsone Surveyor

I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that the abovenamed Baillie
Bartholomew was duly served with a Requisition & Notice whereby he was to be charged
with the duty of the above Male Servant And that upon the fourteenth day of
October current I delivered to Mr William Napier Collector for the foresaid Borough An
Exact Duplicate of this Survey which contained my oath to the above effect.
Linlithgow 25th October.....James Watsone Surveyor
1794

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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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