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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 William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing Several Duties
I find they Ammount in whole to Two hundred & Eighty two Pounds Ten shillings Sterling and that upon the day of February 1791
I delivered to Major David Gardyne Collector of the said duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account or
Survey as will appear from [...] duly examined and compared with the foregoing which contained my oath
that Notices were left with the several person before named or at their dwelling houses of the dates Annexed to their respective
names, requiring them within fourteen days to give in a list of their Male Servants retained or employed by them from the
5th day of April 1789 to the 5th day of 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 Male Servants of those who neglected or refused to give in a
list thereof in terms of the notices left with them as aforesaid.
William Greig 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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