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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 17 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/17

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Lanerk Shire Survey Continued

I William Mure Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing Several Rates & Duties I find they amount in whole to Four & Hundred & Forty three pounds Eleven Shillings & Sixpence Sterling and that upon the twenty second of November I Delivered to Archibald Hamilton Esqr Collector of the said Duties for the Shire Aforesaid an Exact Duplicate of the above account duly Examined & Compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath that Requisitions were left with the Several Inhabitants or at their Dwelling houses of the Dates Annexed to their Respective names & they are to be Charged with the sums hereby certified to be due from them William Mure


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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 17 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/17

Volume 17 contains male servant tax rolls, 1791-1792, for each county except Orkney. Royal burghs are covered in volume 18.

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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