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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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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX Wigton Shire continued
Proof
8 Male Servs. [Servants] at £1. 5.0 above the duty £10.0.0
16 servs. [Servants] at £1. 5.0 £20.0.0
22 Servants at £1.10.0 £33.0.0
8 Servants at 1.15.0 14.0.0
8 Servants at 2.0.0 £16.0.0
£93.0.0
10 per cent thereon is £ 9.6.0
£102.6.0
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 two Pounds six shillings Sterling; And that upon the tenth day of Decem. [December] one
thousand seven hundred and ninety two years I delivered to Thomas Adair Esqr. Writer to the
Signet Collector of the said duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the
foregoing which contained my Oath that Requisition or notice was delivered to or left
for the said several persons of the rates annexed to their respective names that were
to be charged with the sums so respectively due by them Anthony Macmillan

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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