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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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13 Male Servants at £1.5.0 Each is £16.5.0
32 Male Servants at £1.5.0 Each is £40.0.0
40 Male Servants at £1.10.0 Each is £60.0.0
13 Male Servants at £1.15.0 Each is £22.15.0
Total £139.0.0
£139.0.0 at Ten per Cent is £13.18.0
Sum Total £152.18.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find the above dutys amount to the Sum of One
Hundred and Fifty Two pounds Eighteen Shilling and that upon the Twenty day of October I delivered to John Rutherford
Collector of these dutys for the Shire aforesaid an exact Duplicat of the above which contained my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly served
with requisitions of the dates foresaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose an
attested list of all the Servants, horses and Carriages used and employed by them from the fifth of Aprile Ninety one to the fifth of Aprile Ninety two
as well as an account of what Servants, horses and Carriages they might use and employ any where else and that the foregoing report was made up from
their several Attested Lists or returns to me from the best information I could procure or from my own certain knowledge of their respective Establishments.
[signed] Wm. Brunton

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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