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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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6 Bachelor's Servants at £0.5.0 is £1.10.0
33 Servants at £0.2.6 is £4.2.6
16 Servants at £0.5.0 is £4.0.0
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£9.12.6 Sterling
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I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull examination I find the foregoing Duties amount to
Nine pounds twelve shillings & six pence Ster. [Sterling] and that upon the 29th October 1788 I delivered to John Carfrae Collector of said Duties an exact duplicate of this Account duely examined & Compared which contained my Oath that they preceeding Inhabitants were duely
served with requisitions and that they were charged in conformity to their several returns Or according to my knowledge & belief that they
were liable in said Duties.
William Johnstone Surveyor

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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