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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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CULLEN
A Survey of FEMALE SERVANTS TAX arising in the Town of Cullen
from the 5 April 1789 to the 5 April 1790. By Patrick McDonald Surveyor.

Prooff
5 Servants @ £0.2.6 each is £0.12.6
6 Servants @ £0.10.0 each is £3.0.0
£3.12.6

I Patrick McDonalds Surveyor do make Oath that an exact duplicate of the
foregoing was delivered to Mungo Rainie Collector in the Town of Cullen and the
several Inhabitants were duly served with requisitions
[Signed] Patrick McDonald Survyr [Surveyor]
Sworn before me at Forres 5 April 1790
William Moyes J.P. [Justice of the 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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