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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

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34 Batchelers £0.18.9 £31.17.6
80 £0.18.9 £75.0.0
50 £1.2.6 £56.5.0
67 £1.6.3 £87.18.9
8 £1.10.0 £12.0.0
40 £2.5.0 £90.0.0
£353.1.3
£353.1.3 £353.1.3

Perth 7 March 1786 I Laurence Buchan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify That upon careful
Examination of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties I find they amount in Whole to Three hund [red]
Fifty three pounds One Shilling & three pence Sterg [Sterling] and that on the 4th Currt [Current] I delivered into James
Maxton Esquire Colector of Said Duties for the Shire aforesaid an Exact Duplicate of the above Account [duly]
examined and compared with the foregoing bearing that the returns made by the Masters and Mistresses [were]
agreable to the dates anexed to their respective names
Laurence Buchan 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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