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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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Survey of Forfar Shire continued

64 Single Male Servants of 1 & 2 at £1.5.0 each is £80.0.0 £8.0.0
69 Single Male Servants of 3 & 4 at £1.10.0 each is £103.10.0 £10.7.0
18 Single Male Servants of 5 & 7 at £1.5.0 each is £31.10.0 £3.3.0
13 Single Male Servants of 11 & Upwards at £3.0.0 each is £39.0.0 £3.18.0
17 Single Male Servants unmarried at £1.5.0 each is £21.5.0 £2.2.6
£275.5.0 £27.10.6

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Carefull examination of the foregoing duties I find they Amount
in whole to Two hundred & Seventy five Pounds. five Shillings Sterling, likewise the Additional dutie of 10 p [per] cent Amounting
to Twenty Seven Pounds Ten Shillings & Sixpence Sterling, And that upon the [...] day of February 1792 I delivered David
Gardyne Esqr principall Collector of the Said duties for the Shire Aforesaid an exact duplicate of the Above Account as will appear
from [......] duly examined and Compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath that Notices were left with
the Several persons before named or at their dwelling houses, of the dates Annexed to their respective names requiring them within
fourteen days to give in a list of their Male Servants retained or employed by them from the fifth day of April 1790 to the fifth
day of April 1791, And that the Said Account or Survey is made out from the lists returned to me, and from the best information
I could procure of the Male Servants of those whose Lists are dificient, Neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in
terms of the Nottices left with them as Aforesaid.
William Greig 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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