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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 1 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/1

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An Assessment of the duties upon Servants retained or Employed in the Shire of Kinross from5 day of July
1777 to 25 day of March 1778 years By Charles Robb Assessor

Prooff 5 Servants at 15/-[£0.15.0] Each from 5th July 1777 to 25th
day of march 1778 Is £3.15.0

I Charles Robb Assessor aforesaid Do hereby certifie That upon carefull
Examination of the foregoing duties I find they amount in whole to the sum
Of Three pounds and fifteen Shillings Sterling And that upon the Twenty Second
day of February I delivered to Mr William Edward Collector for the burgh
aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Accompt duly examined and
compared with the foregoing which contained my oath that notices were left
with the whole foregoing Several Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses
of the dates annexed to their respective names that they were to be charged
with the rates and duties hereby certifyed to be due from them
Charles Robb Assessor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 1 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/1

Volume 1 contains male servant tax rolls, 1777-8, for each county except Orkney, Shetland, and Buteshire. Royal burghs are covered in volume 2.

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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