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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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A Survey of Female Servants Tax in Kilrenie
for one year Ending 5 April 1790 by Charles Robb
26 39

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2 Servants @ £0.2.6 Each is £0.5.0

I Charles Robb Assessor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful Examination of the foregoing Several
Rates and Duties I find they Amount in whole to the Sum of Five Shillings Sterling and that upon the
the Fourteenth day of December I delivered to Robert Pratts Collector for the Burgh aforesaid an Exact
Dupliact of the above Account duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing which Contined 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 were to be Charged with the Sums hereby certified to be due from them.
Charles Robb Assessor
[Page] 51

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The numbers 26 and 39 at the top of the page look like modern additions.

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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