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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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A Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX in the Shire of Selkirk
from the 5 of Aprile 1791 to the 5 of Aprile 1792
by William Brunton Surveyor

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7 Male Servants @ £1.5.0 Each is £8.15.0
7 Male Servants @ £1.5.0 Each is £8.15.0
6 Male Servants @ £1.10.0 Each is £9.0.0
6 Male Servants @ £1.15.0 Each is £10.10.0
£37.0.0
£37.0.0 @ Ten per Cent is £3.14.0
Sum Total £40.14.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I find the above duties amount to the Sum of
Forty pound fourteen Shillings and that upon the day of I delivered to John Scott Collector of said dutys for the
Shire aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above which contained my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants were duly Served with requisitions
of the dates aforesaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose as 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 the forgoing 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] William 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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