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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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Prooff -- Male Servt. [Servant] Tax as @..................................................£71.15.0

9 Batchelors Servants at £1.5.0 each is ...............£11.5.0
33 Servants of the 1st Class at £1.5.0 each is......£41.5.0
7 Servants of the 2d Class at £1.10.0 each is.......£10.10.0
5 Servants of the 3d Class at £1.15.0 each is........£8.15.0

...........................................................................£71.15.0.......................£71.15.0


I John Veitch Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the
foregoing several Rates and duties I find the Amount in whole to the Sum of Seventyone pounds
fifteen Shillings Sterling and that upon the 22d. Jany. [January] 1787 I transmited to Robert Colquhoun
Collecter of said duties the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account duly
examined and compared with the foregoing which contained my oath that requisitions were
left with the several foregoing Inhabitants or at their dwelling Houses of the dates annexed
to their respective names & that the Assessments were made from the answers sent me
& now in my possession
[Signed] John Veitch junr. [junior] 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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