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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] 83 LOCHMABEN
Survey of the FEMALE SERVANTS TAX. in the Burgh of Lochmabon
from the 5th of Aprile 1788 to the 5th of Aprile 1789 by William Currie Surveyor

I William Currie aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing Several Rates
and duties I find they Amount in whole to Two Shillings and Sixpence and that upon the 26 day of
December 1788 I delivered to Provost Robert Maxwall Colltr. [Collector] for the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an
exact Duplicate of the foregoing which Contain my oath that Requisitions were left with the Several Inhabitants or at their dwelling
Houses of the date Annexed to their Respective Names and that the Above a duplicate of the Returns
made by them to me or where that failed by the best Information I could get
William Currie 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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