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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 21 - Counties (A-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/21

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Page 2nd Proof FEMALE SERVANTS TAX

Proof of the Abstract
24 Female Servants of No or Col [Column] 3 at 30.10.0 £12.0.0
12 Female Servants of No or Col [Column] 2 at £0.5.0 £3.0.0
9 Female Servants of Batchelors at £0.5.0 £2.5.0
63 Female Serevants at£0.2.6 each £7.17.6
£25.2.6

I John Rose Survr [Surveyor] aforesaid do hereby certify that upon Careful examination of the above duties I find they
Amount to the sum of Twenty five pounds two shillings & sixpence Ster. [Sterling] & that upon the fifteenth day of Jan [January]
I Delivered to Mr William Fraser Collr [Collector] of the said Duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the Above
Acct [Account] which contains my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly served with acquisitions of the dates foresaid
requiring them within fourteen days to deliver to me an attested list of their Servts [Servants] ]Horses & Cargs [Carriages] employ & Used
by them from 5th April [17]89 to 5th April [17]90 & that the Above Account was made up from their Several returns to me
from the best Information Or from my Own certain knowledge of their respective establishments
[Signed]John Rose Survr [Surveyor]


Female Servts [Servants] in the County
£25.2.6

Inverness Shire
to 1791

11/15

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 21 - Counties (A-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/21

Volume 21 contains female servant tax rolls for the following counties: Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Buteshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian, Fife, Angus, Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Lanarkshire.

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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