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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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22 @ £1.5.0 Each for one year is £27.10.0
32 @ £1.5.0 Each for one year is £40.0.0
20 @ £1.10.0 Each for one year is £30.0.0
10 @ £1.15.0 Each for one year is £ 17.10.0
Sum Total £115.0.0

I William Brunton Surveyor doe hereby Certify that upon Careful examination of the Several Rates and dutys
aforesaid I find they Amount in Whole to the Sum of One Hundred and Fifteen Pounds Ster. [Sterling] and that upon the
26 day of September I delivered to John Rutherford Collector of Said dutys for the Shire
aforesaid an Exact Duplicate of the Above Accounts examined and compared with the foregoing which
Contained my Oath that Requisitions were left with the Several Gentlemen or at their dwelling houses that
they are liable in the Sums Set Against their Several Names.
Wm. [William] Brunton

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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