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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 Duties on Male Servants in the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen for the year from the
5th of April 1786 to the 5th of April 1787 by William Mure Surveyor
[Page] 87

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1 Male Servant at £1.5.0 per year is £1.5.0
1 Bachelor Servant at £1.5.0 per year is £1.5.0
Grand total £2.10.0

I William Mure Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby Certify That upon Careful Examination
of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties. I find they amount in whole to
Two pounds Ten shillings Sterling and that upon the sixteenth of February I delivered
to Mr David Park Collector of the said Duties for the Burgh aforesaid, An Exact Duplicate
of the above account, Duly examined and compared with the foregoing, which
Contained my Oath, that Notices were left with the Several Inhabitants, or at their
Dwelling Houses, of the dates, annexed to their respective Names that they
were to be Charged with the sums hereby certified to be due from them
by me William Mure 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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