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Volume contents
- 1 - 1789-90 , Aberdeenshire
- 21 - 1789-90 , Argyll
- 27 - 1789-90 , Ayrshire
- 43 - 1789-90 , Banffshire
- 47 - 1789-90 , Berwickshire
- 55 - 1789-90 , Buteshire
- 59 - 1789-90 , Caithness
- 63 - 1789-90 , Clackmannanshire
- 69 - 1789-90 , Cromartyshire
- 73 - 1789-90 , Dunbartonshire
- 79 - 1789-90 , Dumfriesshire
- 87 - 1789-90 , East Lothian (Haddingtonshire)
- 95 - 1789-90 , Fife
- 107 - 1789-90 , Angus (Forfarshire)
- 115 - 1789-90 , Inverness-shire
- 117 - 1789-90 , Kincardineshire
- 121 - 1789-90 , Kinross-shire
- 125 - 1789-90 , Kirkcudbrightshire
- 131 - 1789-90 , Lanarkshire
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Survey Continued P.15th
[Page] 41
23 Batchelor Servants at 5/- ....£5.15.0
10 Batchelor Servants at 10/- ..£5.0.0
21 Batchelor Servants at £1. ...£21.0.0
121 Servants at 2/6d ..............£15.2.6
28 Servants at 5/- ..................£7.0.0
52 Servants at 10/- ................£26.0.0
255 ............Total.....................£79.17.6
I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify
That upon careful examination of the foregoing Rates & Duties
I find they amount in whole to Seventy Nine Pounds Seventeen
Shillings and six pence Sterling And that upon the Fifteenth
day of March Current I delivered to Mr. Charles Shaw
Depute Collector at the office of John Montgomerie and
Bruce Campbell Esqrs. Principal Collectors of said Duties for
said Shire, an exact Duplicate of and duly examined and compared
with the foregoing Account which contained my oath That
Notifications were delivered or left of the dates foresaid, And that the
Rates charges in said Acct. [Account] were just and true to the best of
my skill and Knowledge; And to the best of my belief, no person
liable to be Charged was omitted.
Robert Aiken 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).