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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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Clackmanan County Survey continued

I George Peat Assistant Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing
rates and duties I find they amount in whole to the sum of Forty seven pounds Eleven shillings six pence
sterling And that this day I delivered to Mr. John Jameson Collector for the aforesaid county an exact duplicate
of the foregoing survey which contained my oath that the several persons before named were duly served with
requisitions and notices Whereby they were to be Charged with the several duties hereby certified to be due by them
George Peat Asst [Assistant] Surveyor
Kinross 14th November 1792

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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