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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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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. in the Royalty of North Berwick
from the 5 Aprile 1797 to the 5 Aprile 1798

4 Servants @ £1.10.0 .. £6.0.0
6 Servants @ £1.15.0 .. £10.10.0
£16.10.0
10 Per Cent on £16.10.0 £1.13.0
addl [additional] 10 pr [per] Cent £1.13.0
£19.16.0


I John Menzies Surveyor do hereby Certify that upon Carefull examination of the foregoing Rates
and Duties I find that they amount to the sum of Nineteen Pounds Sixteen Shillings Sterling and that
upon the nineth day of October I delivered to James Buchan Collector of these Duties an exact
duplicate of this acct [account] duly examined and Compared which Contained my oath that Requisitions were sent to the foregoing Inhabitants
of the preceeding Rates and that they were charged the Sums annexed to each of their names according to the
Answers they made said Requisitions or according to my knowledge and belief that they were liable in
these duties.
John Menzies 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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