FRom "The Times" April 10, 1869.
The Budget April 1869
That towards raising the supply granted to Her Majesty there shall be granted, charged, levied, and paid on and after the 1st. day of January 1870, in and throughout Great Britain, the following duties of Excise upon licences to be taken out annually by the persons who shall employ any male servant, or who shall keep any carriage, or horse, or mule, or who shall wear or use any armorial bearings, or who shall exercise or carry on the trade of a horse dealer.
Male Servants
For every male servant employed either wholly or partially in any of the following capacities, viz.:- Maitre d’Hotel, house steward, master of the horse, groom of the chambers, valet de chamber, butler, under butler, clerk of the kitchen, confectioner, cook, house porter, footman, page, waiter, coachman, groom, postilion, stable boy or helper in the stables, gardener, under gardener, park keeper, gamekeeper or game watcher, huntsman and whipper-in, or in any capacity involving the duties of any of the above descriptions of servants by whatever style the person acting in such capacity may be called…… 15 shillings
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