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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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I James Allan Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby certify, That upon careful Examination
of the foregoing several Rates & duties they Amount in Whole to One hundred & forty five [pounds]
fifteen Shillings Ster [Sterling] & that upon the first of October last I delivered to Mr Thomas Wingate
Collector of the said duties for the County aforesaid, an exact duplicate of the above Account duly
examined & compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath that Requisitions were [delivered]
at their dwelling Houses of the above dates & that they were to be charged with the sums hereby
Certified to be due from them
James Allan Surveyor
Alloa 2nd Novemr [November] 1787

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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