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

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I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing Several Rates and duties I find they
amount in whole to two hundered and five pounds Six Shillings and three pence Sterling and that upon the [ ] day of
One thousand seven hundred and eighty six I delivered to Major David Gardiene Collector of said duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above
Accompt (conform to Receipt hereunto annexed) duly examined and compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath That Notices were delivered to
or left for the Several Inhabitants at their dwelling places of the dates annexed to their names requiring them to deliver to me Signed Lists of the
Male Servants employed by them in terms of the Act of Parliament And that the Charges made on them were either made from the returns received by me
or from the best Information I could procure of the Servants employed by them.
William Greig Surveyor

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

Volume 5 contains male servant tax rolls, 1785-1786, for each county except the county of Buteshire. Royal burghs are covered by volume 6.

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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