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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. for the Shire of Sutherland
from 5 April 1791 to 5 April 1792 with 10 per cent thereon By David Brodie Surveyor
Proof c
4 Bachelor Servants at £1.5.0 Each is £5.0.0
6 Servants at £1.5.0 Each is £7.10.0
1 Servant at £1.15.0 Each is £1.15.0
! Servant at £3.0.0 Each is £3.0.0
£17.5.0
10 per cent £1.14.6
£18.19.6 Total

I David Brodie Surveyor, do hereby certify, that, upon careful examination of the foregoing
Rates and Duties I find they amount in Whole to Eighteen pounds Nineteen Shillings & sixpence and
that upon 27 Oct [October] [ last] I delivered to Mr Dugald Gilchrist Collector of the said Duties an Exact Duplicate [of]
the above account duly examined and Compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath
that Requisitions were left with the several Masters & Mistresses or at their Dwelling houses of the
Dates annexed to their Respective Names that they were to be charged with the sums hereby
certified to be due from them. David Brodie Surveyor [Page] 195

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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