Documents relating to the financial affairs of Perth burgh
- Reference:GB 252 B59/25
- Dates of Creation:1424-1879
- Language of Material:English
Scope and Content
General financial records, 1424-1861, including: Compt book of Bailie Alexander Jamieson, merchant and town treasurer, 1660-1673; Items relating to money loaned to the town and the state of the town’s revenue and expenditure, 1766-1786; Abstracts of account, 1792-1800, 1838-1839, 1846-1879; Draft state of property sold from 1793-1833; State of property, debt and free stock, 1823-1832; Statements of revenue and expenditure, 1829-1837.Documents relating to taxation, 1563/4-1871, including: Petty customs, exchequer compts, 1573-1763; Estimate and valuation of burgh properties for land tax purposes, 1712; Custom tables, common good, stent roll and cess, 1681-1851; Tables of the assize of bread, 1777-1820; Notes of shore dues, 1766-1830; Collection of specific taxes and duties, 1737-1830; Tax rolls including window tax, 1753-1787; List of householders liable in payment of compositions for their statute services on roads and highways, 1776, and male servants in Perth, 1779-1780.Leases of burgh lands and revenue, 1592-1855, including: Tacks of burgh fishings, mills, inches, 1680-1802; Roup rolls of the common good, 1740-1795; Roup rolls of revenue, 1744-1799; Bonds by tacksmen of the customs, weigh house, fleshmarket, 1801-1834.Treasurer’s accounts and vouchers, bonds and discharges, 1562-1819, with poor roll and list of elders of Kirk Session of Perth, 1699.
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