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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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[Page] 45 INVERBERVIE

Bervie FEMALE SERVANTS TAX for the year ending 5
April 1789 by Daniel Ross Survr. [Surveyor]

I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby certify that upon careful
examination find the foregoing duties amount to the Sum of Seven Shillings
and sixpence Stg. [Sterling] and that upon the -- day of -- 1789 I delivered
to John Duncan Coll [Collector] for the burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of this
Acct [Account] which contained my oath that the preceding inhts. [inhabitants] were duly
Served with requisitions of the date foresaid, and that they were charged
according to their Sevl [Several] returns to me, and according to the best
information I could procure, of which the foregoing is an accurate and just State
Daniel Ross 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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