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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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Linlithgow County MALE SERVANTS TAX Survey Continued
[page] 189

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34 Servants @ £1.5.0 each is £42.10.0
7 Servants @ £1.10.0 each is £10.10.0
7 Servants @ £1.15.0 each is £12.5.0
8 Servants @ £2.0.0 each is £16.0.0
28 Servants @ £3.0.0 each is £84.0.0
84 £165.5.0
7 of the above Batchelors @ £1.5.0 each £8.15.0
£174.0.0 Exd GS [Examined General Surveyor]

I James Watson Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon Carefull examination of the foregoing Duties
I find they amount to the Sum of one hundred & seventy four pounds Ster [Sterling] And that upon the
fifth of October last I delivered to Mr James Taylor Collector for this County an exact Duplicate
hereof which Contained my oath that the Severall persons before named were duly Served with
Requisitions whereby they were to be Charged with the Returns made & sums hereby Certified to be
due from them.
James Watson Surveyor
Linlithgow 6th 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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