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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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63 Br [Batchelor] Servants £1.5.0 each is £78.15.0
71 Servants at £1.5.0 each is £88.15.0
68 Servants at £1.10.0 is £102.0.0
18 Servants at £1.15.0 is £31.10.0
8 Servants at £2.0.0 is £16.0.0
25 Servants at £3.0.0 is £75.0.0
................................ £392.0.0
10 per cent thereon £39.4.0
Total by Prooff........ .£431.4.0

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon
Careful Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount to Three
hundred and Ninety two pounds which with the Ten per Cent duty thereon being Thirty
nine pounds four shillings sterling makes them amount in whole to Four hundred
and thirty one pounds four shillings sterling and that upon the Thirteenth day of
December Current I delivered to Mr. Charles Shaw Depute Collector at the Office of John
Montgomery and Bruce Campbell Esqrs. principal Collectors of said duties fsaid [forsaid] County an
Exact Duplicate hereof and duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing account
which contained my Oath that Notifications were delivered or left of the dates foresaid
and that the Rates and Duties Charged in said Account were just and true to the
best of my skill and knowledge and to the best of my belief no person liable to be charged
was omitted.
Rob Aiken

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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