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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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[Page] 58

Prooff
24 @ £1.5.0 £30.0.0
27 @ £1.10.0 £40.10.0
5 @ £1.15.0 £8.15.0
56
12 Batchelors servts [servants] @ £1.5.0 £15.0.0
£94.5.0
10 p cent [percent] thereon £9.8.6 £103.13.6

I David Hutcheson Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify That upon carefull examination
I find the foregoing duties amount to one hundred & three pounds thirteen shillings
& sixpence strg [sterling] and that on this day I delivered to Thomas Ewing Esq Collector
of said duties an exact duplicate of the foregoing accompt duly compared
which contained my oath that the before named inhabitants were
served with requisitions, and that they are to be charged the sums to [their]
names sett agreeable to their returns to me, or to the best of my information
knowledge or belief that they are liable in the same
Glasgow 5 Jany [January] 1795
[Signed] David Hutcheson

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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