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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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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. Arisen in the Burgh
of Tain for the year ending 5th April 1787. By Hugh MacFarquhar Surveyor

I Hugh MacFarquhar Surveyor Aforesaid Do hereby certify, that the Above Servant is the only one
returned to me & that is kept on or employed within the Burgh Aforesaid, liable to Duty, According to the
best of my knowledge & information, And that I delivered an exact Duplicate of the Charge to Mr Alexander
Manson Present Treasurer & Collector of Said Duties for the Burgh, on the fifteenth day of November
currt. [current]. Hugh MacFarquhar 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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