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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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23 Batchelors Servants @ £1.5.0. p [per] Annum above the Dutys for ¾ of a Year at 18/9 [£0.18.9] £21.11.3
57 Servants @ £1.5.0. p [per] Annum above the Dutys for ¾ of a year at 18/9 [£0.18.9] £53.8.9
49 Servants @ £1.10.0 p [per] Annum above the Dutys for ¾ of a year at £1.2.6 £55.2.6
23 Servants @ £1.15.0 p [per] Annum above the Dutys for ¾ of a year at £1.6.3 £30.3.9
45 Servants @ £2.0.0 p [per] Annum above the Dutys for ¾ of a year at £1.10.0 £67.10.0
£227.16.3


I William Hogg Surveyor aforesaid Do Hereby Certify that upon carefull Examination of the Foregoing Acct [Account]
of Rates & Dutys arrising on Male Servants in the County of Haddington I find the amount to be Two
Hundred & Twenty Seven Pounds Sixteen Shillings & Three pence Sterling And that upon the 10th day of
December 1785 I delivered a Duplicate of the Foregoing Exactly Compared to Mr William Wilkie Deputy Collector
of the foresaid Dutys in the County of Haddington, And which Contained my Oath that Requisitions were
Delivered to the Different Inhabitants of the Dates aforesaid & the Dutys sett against them was a Just State from
the Returns they made & now in my Possession
William Hogg Surveyr [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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