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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 3 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/3

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Marlee Parish of Kinloch Perthshire August 21 1779

Alexander Aberdeen Gardiner
at Invercauld parish of Crathie
Aberdeenshire 1
[Signed] James Farquason

I mean to pay for four servants at Marlee
Parish of Kinloch Perthshire
[Signed] James Farquason

Note that if any Master or Mistress means to pay for any of
his or her Servants in another Parish he or she must annex a List
of the same hereto expressing their Number and specifying the
County and Parish wherein they mean to pay for them

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 3 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/3

Volume 3 contains male servant tax rolls, 1778-1779, for each county except Shetland and Buteshire. Royal burghs are covered in volume 4.

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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