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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 20 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/20

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15 Bachelors Servts [Servants] @ 5/. [£0.5.0] £3.15.0
48 Family Servants @2/6 [£0.2.6] £6.0.0
4 Family Servants @ 5/. [£0.5.0] £1.0.0
£10.15.0

I James Allan Surveyor aforesaid, do Certify , That upon carefull Examination of the fore-
going several Rates and duties, I find they Amount in whole to Ten Pounds, Fifteen Shillings Sterg [Sterling]
and that I delivered this day to Mr Thomas Paterson of Stirling, Collector of the said duties for the
Borough 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 whole Inhabitants, or at their
dwelling Houses, that they were to be charged with the Sums hereby certified to be due from them.
Alloa 8th Febry [February] 1790...............................James Allan Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 20 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/20

Volume 20 contains female servant tax rolls for the following burghs: Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, Inverkeithing, Inverness, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kilrenny, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Peebles, Pittenweem, Perth, Queensferry, Renfrew, Rothesay, Rutherglen, St. Andrews, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, and Wigtown.

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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