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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 Daniel Ross Surveyor Aforesaid Do hereby Certify That on
Carefull examination I find the foregoing Duties Amt [Amount] to the Sum
Five Pounds twelve shillings & six pence Stg [Sterling] And that upon
[blank] I deliver'd to Mr John Colvile Collr [Collector] of the said
for the Burgh Aforesaid an exact Duplicate of this Acct [Account] which contained
My Oath That the preceeding Inhabitants were duly served
with requisitions of the Dates aforesaid, and that they were to be
charged Conformably to their severall returns or from the best
formation I could procure
At Dundee 22nd January 1790 Daniel Ross Surveyor

Arbroath
Female Servants Tax
£5.12.6
Exd GS [Examined General Surveyor]

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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