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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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I George Ballantyne Assessor aforesaid do hereby Certify that the Servants subject
in payment of the duty taxed by the late Act of parliament are all mentioned and contained
in the particular lists thereof wrote upon the preceeding pages and that upon the 27th Dec. [December] 1779
I sent by Post to William Waugh Collecter of the said Duty for the Shire aforesaid an exact
duplicate of the above Account duly examined and compared with the foregoing.
George Ballantyne

Survey of the
Tax on Servants
in the
Shire of Selkirk
From the 25th of March 1778
To the 25th of March 1779
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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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