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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 23 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/23

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Kinross County Male Servants Tax Survey Continued

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 Eleven Pounds Sixteen shillings and Six pence Sterling And that upon
the Fourteenth day of October current I delivered to Mr George Peat Collector for
The foresaid County 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 25th October
1794

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 23 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/23

Volume 23 contains male servant tax rolls, 1794-1795, for each county. Royal burghs are covered in volume 24.

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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