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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 David Hutcheson Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify That upon careful
examination of the foregoing several rates and duties find they amount in whole to the
sum of Two hundred and Fourty Five pounds and Six pence sterling; And that upon the
date hereof I delivered to Mr John Gardner Collector of these duties an exact duplicate
which contained my oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were duly served with
requisitions of the dates annexed to their respective names And that they were charged
conform to their returns or my information knowledge or belief that they were
liable in said duties. -
[signed] David Hutcheson
Glasgow 4 January}
1793
[page] 175

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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