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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 Neil McInnes Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon Carefull examination of the foregoing rates & duties,they
amount in whole to three hundred & Eleven pound fifteen shillings sterling And I do make oath that Requisitions
were left or made with the whole foregoing Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of the respective dates aforesaid
to return their respective lists as therein required And which they are Charged to the rates & duties sett against
their severall names Neil McInnes Surveyor John Durno Coll [Collector]
Sworn before me the Seventh day
of January 1788 years Charles Gordon J.P. [Justice of the Peace]



Male Servants
County Aberdeen
from Aprile 1787 to Aprile 1788

Exd [Examined]

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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