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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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I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I find the above duties amount to the Sum
of Seventy pound eight Shillings and that upon the fourth day of November 1794 I delivered to John Robertson Collector of said duties
for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above which containd my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions
of the dates foresaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose an Attested List of the Servants Horses and Carriages used and employed by them from the 5 of April 1794 to the 5 of April 1795 as well as an account of what
Horses and Carriages used and employed by them anywhere else And that the forgoing report was made up from their Severall Attested Lists
returns to me from the best information I coud procure or from my own certain knowledge of their Respective Establishments.
[Signed] William Brunton

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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