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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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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX of the County of Banff
Continued

Proof
14 Servants 5 at £2.10.0 each 4 at £2.15.0 & 5 at £3.0.0 pr [per] annum for 3 Quarters of a year is £28.17.6
18 Servants at £1.5.0 each per annum for 3 Quarters of a year is £16.17.6
12 Servants at £1.10.0 each per annum for 3 Quarters of a year is £13.10.0
20 Servants at £2.0.0 each per annum for 3 Quarters of a year is £30.0.0
21 Servants at £3.0.0 each per annum for 3 Quarters of a year is £47.5.0
£136.10.0

I Archibald Duff Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull examination of the fore [going]
severall Rates & Duties I find they amount in whole to One hundred and thirty Six pounds Ten
shillings Sterling, And that upon the twentieth day of March Currt. [Current] I delivered to James Duff Esquire
Collector of the said Duties for the County of Banff aforesaid, An Exact duplicate of the above Accot [Account]
Examined & Compared with the foregoing , which contained my oath That notices were left with the
Severall Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of the dates annexed to their respective names [in]
order that they might make a Report of the greatest number of Male Servants retained & employed [by]
them for the period therein mentioned Which they did in Substance as above
Archibald Duff 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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