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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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Stirling County Survey

I James Allan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon
careful Examination I find the foregoing duties Amount to the Sum of One Hundred
& forty Seven Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Sixpence Stg [Sterling] and that upon the Thirteenth
day of Novemb.[ November] last I delivered to Mr Thomas Wingate Collector of said duties an e.. [exact]
duplicate of this Account duly Examined & Compared which contained my Oath
that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions & that they were
charged in conformity to their several returns now in my possession or according to my
knowledge & belief that they were Liable in said duties James Allan Surveyor

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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