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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 Royalty of Northberwick
from the 5 Aprile 1794 to the 5 Aprile 1795 by John Menzies Surveyor

Proof...1 Batchelors Servant at £1.5.0... £1.5.0
...........1..................Servant at £1.5.0... £1.5.0
...........3................Servants at £1.10.0..£4.10.0
.......................................................... £7.0.0
10 P cent [per cent] on £7.0.0 is...........£0.14.0
..................................................Total £7.14.0

I John Menzies Surveyor Aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon Carefull examination I find the foregoing duties
Amount to the sum of Seven Pounds Fourteen Shillings Sterling and that upon the 30 August 1794
I delivered to John Kirk Collector of said duties exact duplicate of this Accompt duly examined and
Compared which contained my oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions
and that they were charged according to the answers they made thereto or According to my knowledge and
belief that they were liable in said Duties
John Menzies 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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