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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 BUTESHIRE
From 5th April 1787, to 5th April 1788 by Robert Aiken Surveyor

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify, That upon Careful Examination
of the foregoing Rates and duties, I find they amount in whole to Six Six pounds five shillings
Sterling; And that upon the twenty sixth day of January current I caused to be
delivered to Alexander May Esquire Collector of said Duties an Exact duplicate
of and duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing Account which contained
my Oath that Notifications were delivered or left of the dates foresaid, And
that the Rates charged in said Account were just and true to the best of my
skill and knowledge; and to the best of my belief no person liable to be charged
was omitted, And I am now possessed of the said Alexander Mays Letter of the above
date acknowledging the Receipt of said Duplicate.
Robert Aiken 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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