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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 in the Burgh of Dundee for three Quarters of one Year
commencing the fifth of July 1784, and ending the 5th day of April 1785 by William Greig Surveyor

[Page] 31

[Note in Margin] 138
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I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do here by Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing duties I find they amount in
whole to twenty four pounds Seven Shillings and Sixpence Sterling and that upon the -- day of -- 1786 I delivered Mr James
Dick 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 nottices were left
with the Several persons before named or at their dwelling houses, of the dates annexed to their respective names, requiring them within
fourteen days to give in a list of their Servants retained or employed by them, from the fifth day of July 1784 to the 5th day of April
1785, and that the said Account or Survey was made out from the Lists returned to me, and from the best information I could procure of
the servants of those who neglected or refused to return a list in terms of the nottices left with them as aforesaid

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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