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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 William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I find the above duties amount (to)
the Sum of Ninety three pouind and that upon the____day of____I delivered to Gideon Neidham Collector
of said duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate duly compared which contained my Oath that the foregoing
were duly served with Requisitions of the foregoing duties desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered (to)
me upon calling for that purpose. An Attested list of All the Male Servants used and employed by them from the 5 of April
1797 to the 5 of April 1798 as well as an account of what Male Servants they might use and employ anywhere Else and the
forgoing Report now made up from their Several Attested lists or Returns to me from the best of my knowledge of their respective
Establishments William Brunton

A Survey of the Male Servants Tax in the County of Peebles from the 5 of April 1797 to the 5 of April 1798
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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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