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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 16 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/16

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108 Batchelor Servants at £0.5.0 each is £27.0.0
24 Batchelor Servants at £0.10.0 each is £12.0.0
3 Batchelor Servants at £1.0.0 each is £3.0.0
669 Servants at £0.2.6 each is £83.12.6
215 Servants at £0.5.0 each is £53.15.0
16 Servants at £0.10.0 each is £8.0.0
1035 Servants producing Grand Total £187.7.6
206 at 2 to each Servant is 103 Servants
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I George Storie Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing several rates and duties I find
amounts in whole to One hundred and Eighty Seven pounds Seven Shillings and six pence Sterling and that upon the Twenty Second
of November Current, I delivered to John Carlile Collector of the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the
Accounts duly examined and Compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath that Notices were left with the several
Inhabitants or at their Dwelling houses, of the dates annexed to their respective names that they were to be charged
the Sums hereby Certifyed to be due from then. Given under my hand this Twenty fourth day of November 1788

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 16 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/16

Volume 16 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, Lochmaben, 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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