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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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MALE SERVANTS TAX In the Royalty of Haddington From 5th April 1786 to 5th April 1787 by Henry Watson Surveyor

Proof 3 Servants @ £1.5.0 £3.15.0

I Henry Watson Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull Examination of the forgoing several
Rates and Dutys I find They amount To the Sum of Three Pounds fifteen Shillings Sterling
And that upon the -- I delivered John Carfrae Collector of the said Duty's
for the Royalty of Haddington an exact duplicate of the forgoing Acct [Account] duly Examined and Compared
with the forgoing. And which contained my Oath that Requisitions were sent to the several forgoing
Inhabitants and that They were charged the Sums sett against their several Names according to the
Answers made to said Requisitions -
Henry Watson
Surveyor

Transcriber's notes

Note that in the Surveyor's summary the date upon which he delivered the information to the Collector of Duties has been left blank

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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