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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 17 - Counties (A-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/17

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Female Servants Tax
Kingcardineshire continued

Proof
32 Single Female Servants of Married & unmarried persons at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each is £4.0.0
24 (pairs) Female Servants of Married & unmarried persons at 5ss [£0.5.0] each is £6.0.0
16 (threes) Female Servants of Married & unmarried persons at 10ss [£0.10.0] each is £8.0.0
7 single Female Servants of unmarried persons Additional dutie at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each is £0.17.6
2 (pair) Female Servants of unmarried persons Additional dutie at 5ss. [£0.5.0] each is £0.10.0
3 (three) Female Servants of unmarried persons Additional duties at 10ss. [£0.10.0] each is £1.10.0
.................................................................................................................................................£20.17.6


I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing duties I find they amount in
whole to Twenty Pounds Seventeen Shillings and sixpence Sterling and that upon the __ day of __ 1790 I delivered Alexander Garden Esqr Collector of the said duties for the shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Accot. [Account] (as will appear from __ ) duly examined and compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath that Nottices were left with the severall persons before named or at their dwelling houses, of the dates annexed to their respective names, requiring them within fourteen days to give in a list of their Female Servants retained or employed by them from the fifth Day of April 1788 to the fifth Day of April 1789, and that the said Account
or Survey is made out from the lists returned to me, and from the best information I could procure of the Female Servants of those
whose lists are deficient, neglected or refused to give in a list of thereof in terms of the nottices left with them as aforesaid
[Signed] William Greig Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 17 - Counties (A-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/17

Volume 17 contains female servant tax rolls for the following counties: Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Buteshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian, Fife, Angus, Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Lanarkshire.

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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