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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 7 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/7

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21 Batchllers at £1.5.0 is £26.5.0
109 Serts. [Servants] at £1.5.0 is £136.5.0
69 Serts. [Servants] at £1.10.0 is £103.10.0
26 Serts. [Servants] at £1.15.0 is £45.10.0
£311.10.0

I Hugh Richmond Surveyor aforesaid; do hereby Certify; That upon carefull Examination of the foregoing Severall Rates & duties
I find they Amount, in whole to Three hundred Eleven pounds ten Shillings And that upon the 13th. day of December Current
I delivered to John Durno Adt. [Advocate] Collector of the said Duties for the County aforesaid An Exact duplicate of the above Account
duly examined & compared with the foregoing which Contd. [Contained] my oath, that Requisitions were left or made with the Severall Inhabitants
or at their dwelling houses of the dates annexed to their Respective names; to return their Respective Lists as therein rq [required]
And which they are Charged to the Rates & duties Set Agt. [Against] their Severall Names
Hugh Richmond Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 7 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/7

Volume 7 contains male servant tax rolls, 1786-1787, for each county. Royal burghs are covered by volume 8.

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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