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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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Survey Continued
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13 Batchelor Servants Double Duty Sh.D
of wh [which] 2 at 10 Sh. [£0.10.0] each for 3/4 year is £0.5.0
and 11 at 5 Sh. [£0.5.0] each for 3/4 year is £2.1.3
35 Servants at 2/6 [£0.2.6] for 3/4 year is £3.5.7½
18 Servants at 5 Sh. [£0.5.0] each for 3/4 year is £3.7.6
6 Servants at 10 Sh. £0.10.0] each for 3/4 year is £2.5.0
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72 £11.4.4½ Total

I Andrew Liddell Surveyor Do declare That upon Examination of the foregoing Rates & Duties They
amount in whole to Eleven Pounds Fourteen shillings and fourpence halfpenny And That upon
the 4th March 1786 I delivered to Mr John Davidson Collector of Cess for the Shire of Caithness
an exact Duplicate of the above Account examined and compared with the foregoing which
contained my Oath That Notices were left with the several Masters & Mistresses or at their
Dwelling Houses of the Dates annexed to their respective Names

Andrew Liddell 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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