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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 Rates and Duties, on Male Servants, in the Burgh of Tain from 5th April 1794 to 5th April
1795 By David Ross Assistant Surveyor.

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1 Servant @ 25/- [£1.5.0] is £1.5.0
10 per cent on £1.5.0 is £0.2.6
£1.7.6 Totall

I David Ross Surveyor aforsaid Do hereby certify That upon Carefull examination of the foregoing Rates and dutys
I find they amount to one pound Seven Shillings and Sixpence Sterling and that upon the Eight day of September
last ~ I delivered to George Murray Treasurer of the Burgh of Tain Collector of the said Duteys for the Burgh aforsaid
an exact Duplicate of the above acc. [account] duely examined and Compared with the foregoing, which Contained my oath, That the
above Servant was all that was returned to me or was kept within the said Burgh to my knowledge and best Information
and that Mr Baillie was to be Charged with that amt [amount] hereby Certifyed to be due by him. David Ross
16th October 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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