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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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Clackmanan County Male Servants Tax Survey Continued

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8 Servants @ £1.5.0 £10.0.0
3 Servants @ £1.10.0 £4.10.0
17 Servants @ £2.0.0 £34.0.0
1 Batchelor @ £1.5.0 £1.5.0
[Total] £49.15.0
To the 10 P Ct [Per Cent] thereon £4.19.6
Totall £54.14.6

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 Fifty four [pounds]
fourteen shillings and six pence Ster [Sterling] And that upon the Eighteenth of October current [I]
delivered to Mr John Jameson Collector for the foresaid County of Clackmanan an
exact Duplicate of the foregoing Survey which contained my oath that the several [persons]
before named were duly served with Requisitions and Notices whereby they were to [be]
charged with the several Duties hereby certified to be due by them.
James Watson Surveyor

Linlithgow 28 October
1793

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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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