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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 Alexander Fraser Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that the amount of the
foregoing Survey is Nine pounds two Shillings & Six pence and Make Oath that upon
the Twenty Eight day of January [JajvijC.] One thousand Seven hundred & Eighty eight I delivered to Alexander
Loutit Writer in Kirkwall, Collector of Cess & said duties for the Town of Kirkwall
an exact duplicate hereof carefully examined & compared with the foregoing.
Alexander Fraser Surveyor
Kirkwall 20th Jany [January] 1788
Sworn Before John Wier, J.P. [Justice of the Peace]


Duplicate
Survey Female Servants Tax within the Town
of Kirkwall from 5th April 1787 to 5th April 1788

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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