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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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FEMALE SERVANTS TAX of Kingcardine Shire continued

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I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole to twenty pounds five shillings Sterling, and that upon the ___ day of ___ 1789 I delivered Alexander Garden Esqr Collector of the said duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account or Survey (as will appear from ___ hereunto 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 whose lists are deficient, also of others who neglected or refused to return a list thereof in terms of the notices left with them as aforesaid. [Signed] William Greig Surveyor


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39 Single Female Servants of Married and unmarried persons at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each £4.17.6
20 Single Female Servants (twos) of Married and unmarried persons at 5/ [£0.5.0] each £5.0.0
15 Single Female Servants threes of Married and unmarried persons at 10/ [£0.10.0] each £7.10.0
7 Single Female Servants (ones) of unmarried persons Additionall dutie at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each £0.17.6
2 Single Female Servants (twos) of unmarried persons Additionall dutie at 5/ [£0.5.0] each £0.10.0
3 Single Female Servants (three) of unmarried persons Additionall dutie at 10/ [£0.10.0] each £1.10.0
..........................................................................................................................................Totall £20.5.0

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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