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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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KINGHORN
31
61

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1 Servant at £0.2.6 is £0.2.6

I Charles Robb Assessor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful Examination of the foregoing Several Rates
and Duties I find they Amount in whole to the sum of Two Shillings and Sixpence Sterling and that upon the
twenty forth day of November I delivered to John Hutton Collector for the Burgh aforesaid an Exact Duplicat of
the above Account duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing which Contained my Oath that the 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 with the Sums hereby certified to be due from them
Charles Robb Assessor

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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