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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 David Hutcheson Surveyor aforesaid to hereby Certify that
upon carefull examination of the foregoing several Rates and Duties I find
they amount in whole to the Sum of Seventy six Pounds Sterling and
that upon the date hereof I delivered to Mr Thomas Ewing Collector of the
said Duties for the County aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above account
duly examined and Compared with the foregoing which Contained my
Oath that Notices were left with the several Inhabitants or at
their dwelling Houses of the dates annexed to their respective
Names that they were to be Charged with Sums hereby Certified
to be due from them
[Signed] David Hutcheson
Glasgow 28 decr [december] 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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