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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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Kinross County MALE SERVANTS TAX Survey Continued

I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon carefull Examination of the
foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole to the sum of Fifteen Pounds five
shillings Sterling And that upon the Eighteenth day of November current I delivered to Mr.
George Peat Collector for the said County of Kinross an Exact Dupplicate of the foregoing Survey
which contained my Oath that the severall Persons beforenamed were duly Served with
Requisitions and Notices whereby they were to be Charged with the severall Duties hereby
Certified to be due by them
James Watsone Surveyor
Linlithgow 30th November 1790

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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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