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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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North Berwick
Survey of the FEMALE SERVANTS TAX in the Royalty of
North Berwick from the 5 April 1789 to the 5 April 1790. by William Johnstone Surveyor
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Proof. 2 servants at 2/6 [£0.2.6] is £0.5.0
2 servants at 5/- [£0.5.0] is £0.10.0
4 servants at 10/- [£0.10.0] is £2.0
£2.15.0

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful examination I find the foregoing duties amount
to Two Pounds fifteen shillings sterling and That upon the 29 December. 1789. I delivered to Henry Watson Collector of these
duties an exact duplicate of this account duly examined and compared which contained my oath that the preceeding
Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions of the above date and that they were charged in conformity to their
several Returns or according to my knowledge and belief that they were liable in said duties.
William Johnstone Surveyor.

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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

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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