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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 13 - Counties (A-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/13

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I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing Rates and duties I find they
amount in whole to Sixtie two pounds Sterling and that upon the ___day of___1789 I delivered Major David Gardyne
Collector of the said Duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account (as will Appear from ___
here unto fixed) duly examined and Compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath that notices were left with the
Several persons before named or at their dwelling-houses of the dates annexed to their respective names, requiring them
within fourteen days to give in a list of their Female Servants retained and employed by them from the fifth day of April
1787 to the fifth day of April 1788 and that the said Account or Survey is made out from the lists returned to me, and from
the best information I could procure of the Female Servants of those who neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of
the notices left with them as aforesaid
[Signed] William Greig Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 13 - Counties (A-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/13

Volume 13 contains female servant tax rolls for the following counties: Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Buteshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian, Fife, Angus, Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Lanarkshire.

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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