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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 9 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/9

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Male Servants Tax

I Duncan MacNuier Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing several Rates and
dutys I find they amount in whole to One hundred and fifty seven pounds five shillings str [sterling] And that upon the 22
of March 1788 I delivered to Peter MacArthur Depute Collector of the Cess and of the said Dutys for the Shire aforesaid
an exact Duplicate of the foregoing Accompt duly examined and Compared therewith which contained my Oath
that the same was made out from the Returns made to me by the several Masters and Mistresses before named in consequence
of Notifications given them and from the best information I could otherwise obtain.
Duncan MacNuier
Inveraray 22 March 1788

Survey Male Servants Tax
Argyllshire
5 April 1788
£157.5.0 Str [Sterling]

Exd [Examined]

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 9 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/9

Volume 9 contains male servant tax rolls, 1787-1788, for each county. Royal burghs are covered in volume 10.

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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