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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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[Page] 199
Linlithgow County Male Servants Survey Continued

1793 Proof
33 Servants @ £1.5.0 ...................... £41.5.0
19 Servants @ £1.10.0 .................... £28.10.0
12 Servants @ £1.15.0 ...................... £ 21.0.0
8 Servants @ £2.0.0 ...................... £16.0.0
21 Servants @ £3.0.0 ...................... £63.0.0
17 Batchelors @ £1.5.0 ....................... £21.5.0
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£191.0.0
To the 10 PCt [Per Cent] thereof £19.2.0
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Total £210.2.0.


I James Watson 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 Two Hundred and
ten pounds two shillings Strl [Sterling] And that upon the Twelfth day of October current I delivered
to Mr James Taylor Collector for the foresaid County of Linlithgow and Exact Dupplicate
of the foregoing Survey which contained my oath that the several persons beforenamed were
duly served with Requisitions & Notices intimating they were to be charged with the severale Duties
hereby Certified to be due by them. James Watson Surveyor
Linlithgow 15th October 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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