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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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Proof of the Abstract
13 Batchelors Servts [Servants] at 5/ [£0.5.0] each is £3.5.0
18 Married persons Servts [Servants] at 5/ [£0.5.0] is £4.10.0
130 Married persons Servts [Servants] at 2/6 [£0.2.6] £16.5.0
161 £24.0.0

I John Rose Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Carefull examination of the foregoing
Rates & Duties they amount in whole to Twenty Four pounds Sterling & I do make oath that
Nottices were left with the whole foregoing Inhabitants that they were to be charged as above Viz
John Rose Survr [Surveyor]
Mr. Thomas Monro Collector.

Abstract of the Female Servants Tax
in the Town of Inverness amounting
to £24.0.0 Ster [Sterling]

Exd [Examined]

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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

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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