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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 4 at £0.2.6 £0.10.0
2 at £0.5.0 £0.10.0
41 at £0.2.6 £5.2.6
28 at £0.5.0 £7.0.0
3 at £0.10.0 £1.10.0
£14.12.6

Perth 29 January 1788 I Laurence Buchan Surveyor aforesaid do
hereby certify That upon Examination of the Several Rates and Duties I find
they amount in Whole to Fourteen Pounds Twelve Shillings and Six
pence Ster [Sterling] and that upon the 24th Curr [Current] I delivered to Mr Patrick Miller Collector
of the said Duties for the Toun aforesaid an Exact Duplicate of the Above Account
duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing The former being agreeable to the
return made by the foresaid Masters and Mistresses
Laurence Buchan Surveyor

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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