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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 MALE SERVANTS TAX Burgh of Inveraray
from 5th July 1785 to 5th April 1786 By Duncan MacNuier Surveyor

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5 Servants @ £0.18.9 £4.13.9
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I Duncan MacNiuer Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify That upon Careful Examination of the foregoing several rates
and Duties I Find they Amount in whole to the sum of Four Pounds thirteen Shillings and Ninepence Str [Sterling]
and that upon the Thirteenth Day of March Jaivyc [1700] and Eighty Six I Delivered to Peter MacArthur Depute to Donald
Campbell Esq Principal Collector of the said Duties for the Burgh aforesaid in absence of the said Donald Campbell
an Exact Duplicate of the above Accompt duely Examined and Compared with the foregoing which Contained my Oath
That Intimations were given to the whole foregoing persons or Left at their Dwelling houses of the respective Dates
aforesaid, and that the Foregoing Survey or Assessment was made up from the Returns made to me in consequence
thereof and from the Best Information I could otherwise obtain Duncan MacNiuer 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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