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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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Prooff 26 Batchelor Servts [Servants] at £1.5.0 Each over and above the duty for a year Is £32.10.0
91 Servants @ £1.5.0 Each for the duty for a year Is £113.15.0
74 Servants @ £1.10.0 Each for the duty for a year Is £111.0.0
48 Servants @ £1.15.0 Each for the duty for a year Is £84.0.0
27 Servants @ £2.0.0 Each for the duty for a year Is £54.0.0
14 Servants @ £3.0.0 Each for the duty for a year Is £42.0.0
£437.5.0

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certifye that upon carefull Examination of the foregoing duties I find
they Amount in whole to Four hundred & Thirty seven pounds Five Shillings stg [sterling] and that upon the Eight day of
January I delivered to Charles Mitchell Esqr at the Hill Collector of the said duties for the Shire aforesaid an Exact
duplicate of the above Account duly Examined and compared with the foregoing which contained my oath that notices
were left with the Several persons before named or at their dwelling houses of the dates annexed to their resci"ve [respective] names
requiring them within fourteen days to give in a List of their Carriadge or Saddle horses etc. retained or employed by
Them from the fifth day of April 1789 to 5th April 1790 And that the said Account or Survey is made out
from the Lists returned to me, And from the best information I could procure of the Carriadge or Saddle horses
of those whose Lists are deficient neglected or Refused to give in a List thereof in Terms of the Notices
Left with them as aforesaid
Charles Robb Surveyor
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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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