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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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Survey of the Male Servants Tax in the County of Kinross
James Watson Surveyor

Proof
2 Servants at £1.5.0 Each is £2.10.0
6 Servants at £1.10.0 Each is £9.0.0
£11.10.0
To the 10 PC [Per Cent] thereon £1.3.0
Total £12.13.0

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 Twelve pounds
thirteen Shillings Sterl [Sterling] And that upon the Eighteenth day of October current I delivered to
Mr George Peat Collector for the foresaid County of Kinross an exact Duplicate of the
foregoing Survey whch contained my oath that the several persons beforenamed were
duly served with Requisitions and Notices whereby they were to be Charged with
several Duties hereby certified to be due by them
James Watson Sueveyor

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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