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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 21 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/21

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Proof 22 Bachelor Servants at £1.5.0 each £27.10.0
111 Servants at £1.5.0 each £138.15.0
47 Servants at £1.10.0 each £70.10.0
27 Servants at £1.15.0 each £47.5.0
42 Servants at £3.0.0 each £126.0.0
£410.0.0
Ten per cent on the above £41.0.0
Grand Total £451.0.0

I Andrew Aitchison Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify That upon carefull examination of the foregoing several rates
[&] duties find they amount in whole to the Sum of Four hundred and fifty One pound Sterling and that on [..]
day I delivered to Archibald Hamilton Esqr Collector of these duties an exact duplicate of this account duly exam[ined]
and compared which contained my Oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were duly served with requisitions
that they were charged according to their returns is the best of my knowledge and belief that they were
liable in said duties
Andrew Aitchison
Glasgow 26 Decr [December] 1793

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 21 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/21

Volume 21 contains male servant tax rolls, 1793-1794, for each county except Orkney. This volume also contains information on the following burghs: Elgin, Inveraray, Queensferry, and Stirling (but see also volume 22 for rolls for these burghs).

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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