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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 15 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/15

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I David Hutcheson Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull
Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties find they amount in whole to Two hundred & thirty
three pounds fifteen shillings Str [Sterling] and that I delivered to Mr John Gardiner Collector of said Duties for the
Shire of Renfrew an exact duplicate of the above Accounts duly examined & Compared
which contained my oath that notices Requisitions were left with the foregoing Inhabitants
or at their dwelling house - that they were to be charged with the sums hereby
certified to be due from them
[signed] David Hutcheson

Sworn before me
this 20 day of Decr [December] 1790
At Glasgow [signed] Andrew Houstoun J:P: [Justice of the Peace]

[page] 165

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 15 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/15

Volume 15 contains male servant tax rolls, 1790-1791, for each county except Orkney. Royal burghs are covered in volume 16.

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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