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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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4 Servants at £1.5.0 £5.0.0
9 Servants at £1.10.0 £13.10.0
6 Servants £1.15.0 £10.10.0
£29.0.0 Total of Appendix paid at other Places

I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful examination of
the foregoing several Rates & duties I find they amount in whole to the sum of One
hundred three ponds five Shillings Sterling and that upon the twenty third day of
December one thousand Seven hundred & ninety years I delivered to Alexander Gordon
Esqr of Campbelton Collector of the said duties for the Shire or Stewartry aforesaid
an Exact Duplicate of the foregoing which contained my Oath the Requisitions or
Notices were delivered t or left at the dwelling Houses of the said several
Persons of the dates annexed to their respective Names that they were
chargeable with the Suns hereby certified to be due from them
Anthony Macmillan

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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