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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 James Allan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull Examination
I find the foregoing duties Amount to the Sum of One hundred & fifty four pounds fifteen Shillings Sterg [Sterling]
and that upon the 11th day of Decemr [December] I delivered to Mr Thomas Wingate Collector of said duties
an exact duplicate of the Account duly Examined and Compared which contained my Oath
that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions and that they were
charged in Conformity to their several Returns, now in my Possession, or according to my
knowledge and belief that they were liable in said duties
James Allan Surveyor
Alloa 13th Decemr. [December] 1790
[Page] 183

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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