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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 1 - Counties (A-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/1

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223 Female Servants at £0.2.6 each per year for three Quarters of a year is £20.18.1½
112 Female Servants at £0.5.0 each per year for three Quarters of a year is £21.0.0
87 Female Servants at £0.10.0 each per year for three Quarters of a year is £32.12.6
in Whole 422
38 Bachelor Servants at £0.2.6 each per year for three Quarters of a year is £3.11.3
16 Bachelor Servants at £0.5.0 each per year for three Quarters of a year is £3.0.0
3 Bachelor Servants at £0.10.0 each per year for three Quarters of a year is £1.2.6
Grand Total £82.4.4½


I William Mure Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of
the foregoing Several Rates and Duties I find they amount in Whole to Eighty Two pounds four
Shillings & Four pence Two farthing Sterling and that upon the ___ I delivered
to James Hamilton Esqr Collector of the Said Duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the
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 the Sums hereby certified to be due from them
by me William Mure Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 1 - Counties (A-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/1

Volume 1 contains female servant tax rolls for the following counties: Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian, Fife, Angus, Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Lanarkshire.

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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