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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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Perth 29 January 1788 I Laurence Buchan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify
That upon careful Examination of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties I find They amount
in Whole to Four hundred and Seventy six pounds St [Sterling] and that upon the 24th
Currt [Current] [24 Jan 1788] I delivered to James Maxton Esquire Collector of the said Duties for the Shire aforesaid
an Exact Duplicate of the Above Account duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing
Notes being left with the several Masters and Mistresses or at their dwelling Houses and
to which their returns were made
Laurence Buchan Surveyor

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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