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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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Aberdeen 6th September 1779 Received from Mr Hugh Richmond
Assessor and Surveyor of the Duties on Servants within the County
of Aberdeen, an attested Survey of these Duties from the Twenty
fifth Day of March Seventeen hundred and Seventy Eight to
the Twenty fifth Day of March Seventeen hundred and Seventy
Nine, amounting in whole to the Sum of Two hundred and
Eleven pounds and one Shilling Sterling by me Collector of
the Cess of the said County
John Durno

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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