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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 SERVANT TAX
Parishes Collected for a proof of the foregoing Survey Female Servants

I Duncan MacNuier Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the
foregoing several Rates and dutys I find they ammount in whole to Twentynine pounds Seven
shillings and Sixpence sterl [sterling] And that upon the 22d March 1790 I delivered to Donald Campbell
Esq Collector of the said dutys for the Shire aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above And
duly examined and Compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath that Requisitions
were given to the whole foregoing persons or left at their dwelling houses of the recive [respective]
Rates aforesaid, And that the said Accompt was made up from the Returns made to me in
[consequence] thereof And from the best information I could Otherwise Obtain.
Invy [Inveraray] 22d March 1790
[signed] Duncan McNuier

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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