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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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I William Hogg Surveyor of Taxes do Hereby Certify that upon Carefull Examination of the
foregoing Account of the Rates and Duty's on Female Servants Arising in the County of
Berwick I find the Amount to be Forty Nine Pounds Eleven Shillings and ten Pence
halfpenny Sterling and that upon the 1st December 1785 I delivered to Mr. David Renton Collector
of the foresaid County and Exact Duplicate of the foregoing and duly compared which contained
my Oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were Served with Requisitions of the dates aforesaid, and
the same is a just State from the Lists & Answers now in my possession.
Will Hogg Surveyor

Survey
of
Female Servants in the
County of Berwick
From 5th July 1785 to 5th April 1786
by
William Hogg
Surveyr [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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