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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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Proof 35 Bachelor's servants each Over & above the Duty £1.5.0 £43.15.0
79 Servants each Over & above the Duty £1.5.0 £98.15.0
106 Servants each Over & above the Duty £1.10.0 £159.0.0
40 servants each Over & above the Duty £1.15.0 £70.0.0
8 servants each Over & above the Duty £2.0.0 £16.0.0
14 Servants each Over & above the Duty £3.0.0 £42.0.0
10 pr [per] Cents £42.19.0 £472.9.0


I Peter Colvile Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that the foregoing duties Amount to the Sum of four hundred and Seventy two pounds Nine Shillings Sterling and I do make Oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were duly served with requisitions of the dates foresaid and that they were charged According to their Several Returns to me Or from the Best Information
At Torryburn the 8th day of November 1794 years Peter Colvile Surveyor
Before me Charles Preston JP [Justice of Peace]

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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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