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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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111 Bachelor Servants at £0.5.0 each £27.15.0
24 Bachelor Servants at £0.10.0 each £12.0.0
6 Bachelor Servants at £1.0.0 each £6.0.0
660 Servants at £0.2.6 each £82.10.0
204 Servants at £0.5.0 each £51.0.0
24 Servants at £0.10.0 each £12.0.0
1079 Servants chargeable amounting to £191.5.0
204 Children one servant allowed for 2 children 102
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I George Storie Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they
Amount in whole to One hundred and Ninety one pounds five Shillings Sterling and that upon the Thirty first day of
December last, I delivered to John Carlile Collector of the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of these
Accounts duely examined Compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath that Notices were left with the Several
Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses by requisitions, of the dates annexed to their respective names that they were to be
charged with the Sums hereby Certifyed to be due from them. Given under my hand at Glasgow this fourth of January 1790
George Storie Surveyor

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Transcriber's notes

Although Page 26 Division 18 shows "17" in the One Servant column, the actual Division 18 total found on page 26 shows "18" in the One Servant column.

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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