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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 MALE SERVANTS TAX In the Burgh of
Jedburgh from the 5th of July 1785 to 5 of April 1786 by William Brunton Surveyor

4 Servants at £0.18.9 ea [each] for ¾ of an Year is £3.15.0 Stg [Sterling]

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful
Examination of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole
to £3.15.0 Stg [Sterling] And that upon the 18th of March I Sent by Post to James Black Collector
of the said Duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Acct. [Account] duly
examined & Compared with the foregoing And I do make Oath that the above is
a just List returned by the Several Inhabitants when requisition were made by
me of the duties aforesaid
William Brunton

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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