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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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Male Servants
Lanarkshire To 1793

I Andrew Aitchison Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify That upon carefull examination of the foregoing
Several rates and duties find they amount in wholl to the sum of Four Hundred and Forty Eight
pounds Sixteen Shillings and six pence Sterling and that on this day I delivered to Archibald Hamilton Esqr
Collector of these duties an exact duplicate of this account duly examined and compared
which contained my Oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were duly Served with Requisitions
and that they were Charged according to the best of my knowledge and belief that they were [charged]
in said duties Andrew Aitchison
Glasgow 9th Jany [January] 1793



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Duty calculated as unable to see all details in fold of page

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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