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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 Stewartry Cont. [Continued]
[Page] 89

I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing several rates & Duties
I find they amount in whole to the Sum of Fifty eight pounds five Shillings Sterling and that upon the tenth day of
January one thousand seven hundred eighty eight I delivered to Alexander Gordon Esqr. of Campbelton Collector of the said
Duties for the Stewartry aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the foregoing which contained my oath that requisitions were left with
the several foregoing Persons or at their dwelling places that were to be charged with the Sums hereby certified to be
due from them
Anthony McMillan

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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