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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 2 - Counties (M-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/2

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Stirling CountySurvey
Upon Female Serts [Servants]
From 5th July 1785 to 5th April 1786
P [Per] James Allan
Surveyor

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GS. [General Surveyor]


I James Allan Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull Examination
of the foregoing several Rates and duties, I find they Amount in whole to Twenty four pounds seven
Shillings & Sixpence Sterg. [Sterling] and that upon the 1st. Current I delivered to Mr Thomas Wingate Collector
of the said duties for the County aforesaid, an exact duplicate of the Above Account duly examined [and]
Compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath that Notices were left with the several Inhabitants
or at their Dwelling Houses of the dates annexed to their respective names, that they are chargeable
with the sums set against their several Names certified to be due from them
Alloa 6th March 1786 [Signed] James Allan Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 2 - Counties (M-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/2

Volume 2 contains female servant tax rolls for the following counties: Midlothian, Morayshire, Nairnshire, Orkney, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland, Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian and Wigtownshire.

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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