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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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34 at £1.5.0 £42.10.0
70 at £1.5.0 £87.10.0
79 at £1.10.0 £118.10.0
58 at £1.15.0 £101.10.0
20 at £2.00 £40.0.0
36 at £3.0.0 £108.0.0

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£498 at 20 PrCt [per cent] £99.12.0 £597.12.0
£597.12.0

Perth 13th March 1798 I Laurence Buchan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify That
upon careful Examination of the several rates and duties I find they amount in Whole to Five
hundred and Ninty seven pounds Twelve shillings Stg [sterling] and that upon the 28th day of February inst
I delivered to James Maxton Esquire Collector of the said duties for the Shire aforesaid an Exact duplicate
of the Above Account duly Examined and compared with the foregoing; requisitions being left with [the]
several Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses and the Above Account is agreable to returns made
Laurence Buchan Surveyor


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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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