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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 Neil McInnes Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon Carefull examination of the foregoing rates
and duties They Amount in whole to Three hundred & fifty Eight pound fifteen shillings sterling & I do make oath
that requisitions were left or made with the foregoing Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of the respective dates
aforesaid to return their respective lists as therein required & which they are charged to the rates & duties
sett against their several names Neil McInnes Surveyor - I further certify that
upon the Seventh day of December 1790 I delivered to Mr John Durno Collector of said duties an exact duplicate of the
above accompt duly examined & compared Neil McInnes

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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