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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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6 Male Servants @ £1.5.0 Each is £7.10.0
23 Male Servants @ £1.5.0 Each is £28.15.0
6 Male Servants @ £1.10.0 Each is £9.0.0
5 Male Servants @ £1.15.0 Each is £8.15.0
[total] £54.0.0
£54.0.0 @ 10 per Cent is £5.8.0
Sum Total £59.8.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find the above duties amounts to the Sum of Fifty Nine pounds
eight Shillings and that upon the Thirty day of October I delivered to John Robertson Collector of these duties for the Shire aforesaid an [exact]
Duplicate of the above which Containd my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants were duly Served with Requisitions of the dates foresaid desiring them [within]
fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose an Attested List of all the Servants Horses and Carriages Used and employed by them from
the 5 of April Ninety three to the 5 April Ninety four as well as an acount of what Servants Horses and Carriages they might use and employ any where else
And that the forgoing Report was made up from their Several Attested Lists or Returns to me from the best information I coud procure or from my own personal
knowledge of their Respective Establishments.
[Signed] William Brunton

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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