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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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Survey of Kingcardine Shire Continued
MALE SERVANTS TAX

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing duties I find they
amount in whole to Seventy Five Pounds & fifteen Shillings Sterling, and that upon the -- day of March 1787 I delivered
Alexander Garden Esqr Collector of the said duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above account / as will appear
-- duly examined and compaired with the foregoing which contained my Oath that nottices were left with
the foregoing which contained my Oath that notices were left with the several persons before named or at their dwelling
houses of the dates annexed to their respective names requiring them within fourteen days to give in a list of their Servants
retained or employed by them from the 5th April 1785 to 5th April 1786, and the said account or Survey is made out from
the lists returned to me, and from the best information I could procure of the Servants of those who neglected or refused
to give in a list thereof in terms of the nottices left with them as aforesaid
William Greig 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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