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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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Stirling County Survey
Male Servants Tax

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45 Servants £1.5.0 £56.5.0
38 Servants £1.10.0 £57.0.0
6 Servants £1.15.0 £10.10.0
8 Servants £2.0.0 £16.0.0
3 Servants £3.0.0 £9.0.0
13 Bachelor Servts [Servants] @ £1.5.0 above duty. £16.5.0
£165.0.0
10 pr [per] Cent on the Amount £16.10
£181.10.0
I James Allan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby
Certify that upon carefull Examination I find the foregoing
duties Amount to the sum of One hundred and Eighty
One pounds Ten shillings Sterling
and that upon the Twenty fourth Curt [Current] I delivered to Mr
Thomas Wingate Collector of said duties an exact duplicate
of this Account, duly Examined and Compared, which con-
tained my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were
duly served with Requisitions, And that they were charged
Conformity to their several Returns now in my possession
or according to my knowledge and belief that they were
liable in said duties.

Alloa 28 Novem [November] 1791 James Allan Surveyor


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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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