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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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1 Rate Containing 131 Female servants which at 2/6d [£0.2.6] per annum each or £0.1.10½ per ¾ of a year is £12.5.7½
1 Rate containing 36 Female servants which at 5/- [£0.5.0] per annum each or £0.3.9 for ¾ of a year is............. £6.15.0
1 Rate containing 68 female servants which at 10/- [£0.10.0] per annum each or £0.7.6 for ¾ of a year is.............£25.10.0
1 Rate containing 11 Batchelors servants which at 5/- [£0.5.0] per annum each or £0.3.9 for ¾ of a year is .........£2.1.3
1 Rate containing 24 Batchelors servants which at 10/- [£0.10.0] per annum each or £0.7.6 for ¾ of a year is .......£9.0.0
1 Rate containing 15 Batchelors servants which at £1.0.0 per annum each or £0.15.0 for ¾ of a year is .£11.5.0

Total....................285....Female Servants........................................Total By Proof......................................£66.16.10½


I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid, Do hereby Certify that upon
Careful Examination of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties
I find they amount to Sixty six pounds sixteen shillings and ten
pence half penny Sterling, and that upon the fourth day of [April]
I delivered at the office of Miss William Logan & John Montgomery
principal Collectors of said Duties and to Mr Charles Shaw
their Depute an Exact duplicate of and duly Examined
and Compared with the foregoing Account which contained
my Oath that notices were left with the several inhabitants
or at their dwelling houses and that the Rates annexed
to their respective Names are just and true charges
therein according to the best of my skill and knowledge.
Rob Aiken Surveyor

Survey
Of the Rates and Duties on Female
Servants within the Country Parishes
of Ayr Shire from 5th July 1785
to 5th April 1786
Robert Aiken Surveyor
Surveyor General Copy

142 Servts. [Servants] at £1.10.0
60 Servts. [Servants] at £0.3.9
83 Servts. [Servants] at £0.7.6

Batchelors
11 Servts. [Servants] £0.1.10½
24 Servts. [Servants] £0.3.9
15 Servts. [Servants] £0.7.6

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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