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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 Brunton Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon Carefull examination of the
foregoing Several Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole to the Sum of Forty four pounds
five Shilling Sterling and that upon the Eighteenth of March 1786 I sent by post to Mr.
Alexander Gordon Collector of said duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the foregoing
account duly examined and Compared with the foregoing And I do make oath that the above is a
just list returned by the Several Inhabitants when requisitions were made of the Several dates
aforesaid
William Brunton

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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