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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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Clackmanan County Survey Continued

Prooff
7 Servants at £1.5.0 Each is £8.15.0
16 Servants at £2.0.0 Each is £32.0.0
1 Batchelor Servant at £1.5.0 Each is £1.5.0
£42.0.0
To yr [there] 10 P Ct [Per Cent] on y [the] same £4.4.0
Total £46.4.0

I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon careful Examination of the foregoing Rates
and Duties I find they amount in whole to the sum of Forty Six Pounds Four Shillings sterling
And that upon the Fourteenth day of October last I delivered to Mr John Jamieson Collector for [the]
foresaid County and Exact Dupplicate of the foregoing Survey which contained my Oath that [the]
several persons before named were duly served with Requisitions and Notices whereby they [were]
to be charges with the several duties hereby certified to be due by them
James Watsone Surveyor
Linlithgow 2 November 1791

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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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