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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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Parishes Collected for a proof of the foregoing Survey

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[Page] 16

Proof
16 Rates @ £1.5.0 each £20.0.0
61 Rates @ £1.5.0 each £76.5.0
12 Rates @ £1.10.0 each £18.0.0
5 Rates @ £1.15.0 each £8.15.0
10 Rates @ £2.0.0 each £20.0.0
15 Rates @ £3.0.0 each £45.0.0 £188.0.0
10 P [per] Cent on £188.0.0 £18.16.0

I Duncan McNuier Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful examination of
foregoing several rates and dutys I find they amount in whole to two hundred and six
pounds Sixteen Shillings Stg. [Sterling] including therein the ten per cents due thereon, and that notices were
given by me to the whole forenamed persons or left at their dwelling houses certifiying them that they
were to be charged with the rates & dutys set against their several names and that upon
the twenty fourth day of February Javij [seventeen hundred] and ninety four years I delivered to Neil McGibbon
Collector of the taxes of Argyleshire an exact duplicate of the above accot. [account] duly examined
& compared with the foregoing which contained my oath that notices were given
to or left with the whole forgoing persons of the respective dates aforesaid certifying
them that they were to be charged with the Rates & dutys set against their
several names
[Signed] Duncan McNuier
Inveraray 24th Feby. [February] 1794

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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