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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 James Watson Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon Carefull examination of the
foregoing Duties I find that they amount in total to Three pounds twelve shillings and
six pence Ster. [Sterling] And that upon the fifth of October last I delivered to Mr William Napier
Collector for the said Borough an exact Duplicate hereof which contained my oath
that the severall persons within named were duly served with requisitions whereby they
were to be charged with the Returns made & Sums hereby Certified to be due from
them
Linlithgow 6th Novemr. [November] 1787 James Watson Surveyor

Survey of the Female
Servants Tax in the Town
of Linlithgow from the 5th.
April 1787 to the 5th April 1788
By
James Watson Surveyor
Exd. GS [Examined General Surveyor]

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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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