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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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A Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX in the Shire of Selkirk from the 5 of
Aprile 1792 to the 5 of April 1793
by William Brunton Surveyor

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6 Male Servants @ £1.5.0 Each is £7.10.0
4 Male Servants @ £1.5.0 Each is £5.0.0
9 Male Servants @ £1.10.0 Each is £13.10.0
5 Male Servants @ £1.15.0 Each is £8.15.0
1 Male Servant @ £3.0.0 Each is £3.0.0
£37.15.0
£37.15.0 @ 10 per Cent is £3.15.6
Sum Total £41.10.6

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I find the above duties amount to the Sum of Forty one
Pound Ten Shillings and Six pence and that upon the fifteen day of Octbr. [October] 1792 I delivered to John Scott Collector of said duties for
the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above which Contained my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions
of the dates foresaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose an Attested list of all the Servants Horses and Carriages used and employed by them from the 5 of April 1792 to the 5 of April 1793 as well as an account of what Servants Horses and Carriages they might use and employ any where Else and that the forgoing report was made up from their Several Attested lists or Returns to me from the best information I could procure or from my own certain knowledge of their respective Establishments.
William Brunton

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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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