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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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INVERARAY 32
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Report Survey FEMALE SERVANTS TAX Burgh of Inveraray
for the Year ending 5th April 1790 by Duncan MacNuier Surveyor

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I Duncan MacNuier Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing
several Rate and Dutys I find they ammount in whole to Three pounds Ten shillings; And that upon the
22d March 1790. I delivered to Donald Campbell Esqr Collection of the said dutys for the Burgh aforesaid
an exact Duplicate of the above Accompt duly examined and Compared with the foregoing which
contained my Oath that, Requisitions were given to the whole foregoing persons of the date aforesaid
And that the said Accompt was made up from the Returns made to me in consequence and thereof
and from the best information I could Otherwise Obtain
[Signed] Duncan MacNuier
Inveraray 22d March 1790

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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