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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 12 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/12

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I Duncan MacNiuer Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify That upon carefull examination of the [fore]
going several Rates and dutys I find the same Ammounts to Five pounds Two shillings and Sixpence stg
And that upon the 22 March 1788 I delivered to Peter MacArthur depute Collector of the Cess
of the said dutys for the Shire of Argyll and Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the within And
duly examined and Compared Therewith which contained my Oath that the same was made
from the Returns made to me by the several Masters and Mistresses before named in consequence
Notifications given them And from the best information I could otherwise obtain.
Inverary 22 March 1788
Signed Dun [Duncan] McNiuer

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 12 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/12

Volume 12 contains female servant tax rolls for the following burghs: Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, Inverbervie, Inverkeithing, Inverness, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kilrenny, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Peebles, Pittenweem, Perth, Queensferry, Renfrew, Rothesay, Rutherglen, St. Andrews, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, and Wigtown.

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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