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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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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX arisen within the Town of
Banff from the 5th day of July 1785 To the 5th April 1786 By Archibald Duff Surveyor

Proof
3 Servants at £2.10.0 each for 3 Quarters of a year is £5.12.6
10 Servants at £1.5.0 each for 3 Quarters of a year is £9.7.6
3 Servants at £1.10.0 each for 3 Quarters of a year is £3.7.6
16 £18.7.6

I Archibald Duff Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of
the foregoing several rates and duties I find they amount in whole to Eighteen pounds seven
shillings and six pence sterling and that upon the Twentieth day of March Current I delivered
to Mr James Anderson Collector of the said duties for the Town of Banff aforesaid an Exact Duplicate
of the above Accopt [Accompt] duly examined and Compaired with the foregoing which Contained my oath that
Notices were left with the Several Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of the dates annexed
to their respective names In order that they might make a report of the greatest number of Male
Servants retained and employed by them for the period therein mentioned which they did in substance as
above
Archibald Duff 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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