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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 8 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/8

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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants Arisen in the Burgh of Forfar for one year commencing the
fifth day of April 1786 and ending the fifth day of April 1787 by William Greig Surveyor.

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing duties I find they amount in Whole to two
pounds ten shillings Sterling and that upon the .... day of ... 1787 I delivered Mr Archibald Thornton Collector 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 Male Servants retained or employed by them from the fifth day of April 1785 to the 5th April 1786 and that the said account or Survey is made out from the lists returned to me, and from the best information I could procure of the Male Servants of those who neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the nottices left with them as aforesaid.
William Greig Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 8 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/8

Volume 8 contains male servant tax rolls, 1786-1787, for each of the following burghs: Aberdeen, Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverness, Inveraray, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkwall, Lanark, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Queensferry, Rutherglen, St. Andrews, Stirling, Stranraer 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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