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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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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants arisen in the Burgh of Brechine for three quarters of One Year
commencing the fifth day of July 1784 and ending the fifth day of April 1785 by William Greig Surveyor

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing duties I find it amounts to Eighteen Shillings and Nine pence Sterling and that upon the ... day of ... 1786 I delivered to Mr Alexander Valentine Collector of the Cess and of the said duties
for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account (as will appear from ..... ) duly examined and Compared with the
foregoing which contained my Oath that a Nottice was left with the foregoing person requiring him in 14 days to give in a list of his Servants retained or employed by him from the fifth day of July 1784 to the fifth day of April 1785 and that the above Account is made out from the list returned to me
William Greig 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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