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

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I William Hogg Surveyor of Tax's Do hereby Certify that upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing
Account of the Rates and Duty's on Male Servants Ariseing in the County of Berwick. I find the Amount
to be One Hundred and Ninety Pounds seventeen Shillings and sixpence Sterling, and that upon the 1st. [--]
1785 I delivered to Mr. David Renton Collector of the foresaid County an exact Duplicate of the foregoing [--]
And duly Compared, which contained my Oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were Served with Requisitions
of the dates aforesaid, and that the same is a just State from the Lists & Answers now in my Possession.
William Hogg Surveyr [Surveyor]

Survey
of
Male Servants in the County
of Berwick
From 5 July 1785 to 5 April 1786
by
William Hogg Survyr [Surveyor]

5

GS [General Surveyor]

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

Volume 5 contains male servant tax rolls, 1785-1786, for each county except the county of Buteshire. Royal burghs are covered by volume 6.

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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