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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 19 - Burghs (A-F) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/19

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I Neil McJames Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing rates
and duties They amount in whole to Eighty two pounds Seven shillings and Six pence sterling and I do
make oath that requisitions were left or made with the whole foregoing Inhabitants or at their dwelling
houses of the respective dates aforesaid to return their respective lists as therein required And
which they are Charged to the rates & duties set against their serveral names. Neile McJames Surveyor
Sworn at Aberdeen 4 January 1790
George Auldjo J.P [Justice of Peace]

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 19 - Burghs (A-F) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/19

Volume 19 contains female servant tax rolls for the following burghs: Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Anstruther Wester, Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Burntisland, Campbeltown, Crail, Cullen, Culross, Cupar, Dingwall, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dysart, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, and Fortrose.

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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