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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 19 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/19

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Exd [Examined] GS [General Surveyor] [in margin]

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28 at £1.5.0..................£35.0.0
100 at £1.5.0................£125.0.0
71 at £1.10.0................£106.10.0
44 at £1.15.0................£77.0.0
.....................................£343.10.0
...............10 per Cent.....£34.7.0
.....................................£377.17.0

I Charles Farquharson Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify the upon Careful
examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties they amount in whole to Three
hundred and Twenty Seven pounds Seventeen Shillings Sterg [Sterling] and I do make Oath
that the foregoing inhabitants were duly Served with Requisitions and
they were Charged in Conformity to their Several returns Now in My
possession or according to My knowledge and belief that they were liable
in said duties.................................................Charles Farquharson Surveyor
£344.10.0......£34.9.0
Aberdeen 16th Jany [January] 1793
Sworn before
George Auldjo J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 19 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/19

Volume 19 contains male servant tax rolls, 1792-1793, for each county except Orkney. Royal burghs are covered in volume 20.

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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