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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 6 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/6

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Queensferry Survey upon
MALE SERVANTS TAX
from 5th Jul 1785 To 5 April 1786 by James Allan Surveyor

I James Allan Surveyor do hereby Certify That upon Examination of the foregoing Rate & dutie
I find its Amount to be Eighteen Shillings & Nine pence Sterg [Sterling] and that upon 8th Current I delivered to
Mr Robert Chapman Collector of the said dutie for the Town Aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the Above
Account duly examined & Compared with the foregoing which Contained my Oath that a Requisition was
left with the foregoing Inhabitant or at his Dwelling house & that he was Chargeable with the Sum
hereby certified to be due from him
James Allan Surveyor
Alloa 10th March 1786
GS [General Surveyor]

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 6 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/6

Volume 6 contains male servant tax rolls, 1785-1786, for each of the following burghs: Aberdeen, Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Cullen, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverness, Inveraray, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkwall, Lanark, Linlithgow, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Queensferry, Rutherglen, St. Andrews, Stirling, and Tain.

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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