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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 25 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/25

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I Peter Campbell Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the for [foregoing]
Rates and Duties I find they amount to One Hundred and Seventy Seven Pounds Eighteen Shillings Sterling [and]
that upon the twenty ninth day of December 1797 I delivered to Mr Colin Campbell Depute Collector of said [Duties]
an exact Duplicate of the foregoing Report duly examined and compared which contained my Oath that Requi [Requisitions]
had been delivered to the several persons before mentioned or left for them at their dwelling place and that [they]
were charged from their answers or according to the best information I could obtain and that no person had [been]
understated or omitted therein to the best of my knowledge
Peter Campbell
Inverary 29th December 1797


Male Servants Tax
Argyllshire
5 April 1798
£177.18.0
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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 25 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/25

Volume 25 contains male servant tax rolls for each county except Orkney. For most counties the rolls cover 1795-6 but those for Caithness, Cromartyshire, Lanarkshire, Morayshire, Nairnshire, and Sutherland cover 1796-7 and those for Midlothian and Ross-shire cover 1796-1798.

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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