Need help?

Use this toggle switch to turn image transcriptions on or off. The transcript is a plain text version of the handwritten text found in the image.

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

Transcribe other information

[Page] 25

A Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX in the Burgh of
Dumfries from 5 of July 1785 to 5 of April 1786 by William Brunton Survr [Surveyor]

Proof
13 Servants at £0.18.9 each is £12.3.9

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing
Several Rates & Duties I find they amount in whole to the Sum of £12.3.9 & that upon the 18 March I sent
by Post to Francis Maxwell Collector of the said Duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact Duplicate of above act [account]
duly Examined & Compared with the foregoing & I Do make Oath that the above is a just List returned
by the several Inhabitants when requisitions were made of Dates aforesaid
William Brunton

Male Servants Tax
in the Burgh of
Dumfries
from 5 of July 1785 to 5 of April
1786
For the Office

9

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).

View more volumes for Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records)