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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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I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful examination of the
foregoing several rates and duties I find they amount in whole to the sum of one hundred and
fourteen Pounds thirteen shillings and six Pence Sterling; And that upon the
Tenth day of Decemr. [December] one thousand seven hundred and ninety two years I delivered to Alexander
Gordon Esqr. of Campbelton Collr. [Collector] of the said duties for the Shire or Stewartry aforesaid
an exact Duplicate of the foregoing which contained my oath that Requisitions or Notices
were delivered to or left for the said several persons at their dwelling places of the
dates annexed to their respective names that were to be charged with the Duties
so respectively due by them. Anthony Macmillan

Survey of the Male Servants Tax
in the Shire or Stewartry of Kirkcudt [Kirkcudbright]
from the 5th April 1792 to the
5th. April 1793
£114.13.6
Exd GS [Examined General Surveyor]

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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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