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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 26 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/26

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A Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. in the Burgh of Elgin for
one year preceeding 5 April 1797 by Robert Flyter Assistant Surveyor

Proof. 1 Servant @ £1.5.0 £1.5.0
Twenty per Cent thereon £0.5.0
Total £1.10.0

I Robert Flyter Assistant Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon carefull Exam:
:ination of the foregoing Duties I Find they amount to one pound Ten Shillings Sterling
that the preceeding Inhabitant was duly served with a Requisition and that she is
charged according to her Return to me, and that an Exact Duplicate of the foregoing
Report was transmitted to James Duffus Collector of said Duties By
Robert Flyter A.S. [Assistant Surveyor]

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 26 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/26

Volume 26 contains male servant tax rolls, 1797-1798, for each of the following burghs: Aberdeen, Arbroath, Annan, Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Cullen, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dyasrt, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forres, Glasgow, Inveraray, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcaldy, Kirkwall, Montrose, North Berwick, Perth, Queensferry, 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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