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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 William Currie Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful examination of
the foregoing duties I find they amount to the Sum of Eighty five pounds fifteen
Shilling Sterling, and that upon the 21 Novemr [November] 1787 I sent to Hugh Maxwell
Esqr. Collr. [Collector] of these duties for the Shire aforesaid, an exact duplicate of this Account
which contained my oath that the whole preceding inhabitants were all
Served with requisitions of the dates aforesaid, and that they were charged agreeably
to their own Several returns to me and according to the best information
I could procure William Currie 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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