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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 14 - Counties (M-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/14

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Survey of FEMALE SERVANTS TAX in the Shire of Wigton
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I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination
of the foregoing Several rates & duties I find they amount in whole to the Sum of Seventeen
pounds Seven shillings & Sixpence Sterling and that upon the fourteenth day of Novr [November] one
thousand Seven hundred Eighty eight years I delivered to Thomas Adair Esq Writer to the
Signet Collr [Collector] of the said duties for the Shires aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the foregoing
which contained my oath that requisitions were left with the Several foregoing Inhabitants
or at their dwelling places of the dates annexed to their respve. [respective] Names that they were to
be charged with the sums hereby certified to be due from them -
Anthony Macmillan

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 14 - Counties (M-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/14

Volume 14 contains female servant tax rolls for the following counties: Midlothian, Morayshire, Nairnshire, Orkney, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland, Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian, and Wigtownshire.

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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