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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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Parishes Collected for Abstract of the MALE SERVANTS TAX Argyllshire

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14 servants @ £0.18.9 each £13.2.6
48 Servants @ £0.18.9 each £45.0.0
9 Servants @ £1.2.6 each £10.2.6
10 servants @ £1.10.0 each £15.0.0
18 Servants @ £2.5.0 each £40.10.0
£123.15.0
Duty on Male Servants as above £123.15.0

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I Duncan Mac Nuier Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify That upon Careful Examination of the foregoing several Rates and D[uties]
I Find they amount in whole to the sum of One hundred and twenty three pounds 15 Shills [Shillings] Stg [Sterling] and that upon the Thirteenth day of Jaivijs [Seventeen Hundred] and Eighty six I Delivered to Peter Mac Arthur Depute to Donald Campbell Esq Principal Collector of the said Duties [for] the Shire aforesaid in Absence of the said Donald Campbell an Exact Duplicate of the above Accompt duely Examined and C [ompared] with the foregoing which Contained my Oath That Intimations were given to the whole foregoing persons or left at their d [welling]
houses of the respective dates aforesaid, and that the foregoing Survey or Assessment was made up from the Returns m [ade]
to me in Consequence thereof and from the best Information I could otherwise Obtain. Duncan Mac Nuier

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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