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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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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. in the Shire of Wigton continued
[Page] 194

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5 Batchelors Servts [Servants] at £1.5.0 each.......£6.5.0
16 Servts [Servants] at................£1.5.0 each is ...£20.0.0
15 Servts [Servants] at................£1.10.0 each is..£22.10.0
11 Servts [Servants] at................£1.15.0 each is..£19.5.0
9 Servts [Servants] at..................£2.0.0 each is....£18.0.0
............................................................Grand total £86.0.0

I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing several rates and
Duties I find they amount in whole to the sum of Eighty six Pounds Sterling; and that upon the tenth day of January one
thousand seven hundred Eighty eight I delivered to Mr Thomas Adair Collector of the said Duties for the shire aforesaid an
exact Duplicate of the foregoing which contained my oath that requisitions were delivered to or left at the dwelling places of
the several foregoing Persons chargeable with the sums hereby certified to be due from them.
Anthony Macmillan

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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