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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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57 Batchelors at 5/ [£0.5.0] each is £14.5.0
16 Batchelors at 10 [£0.10.0] each is £8.0.0
1 Batchelors at £1 each is £1.0.0
248 Servants at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each is £31.0.0
74 Servants at 5/ [£0.5.0] each is £18.10.0
69 Servants at 10/ [£0.10.0] each is £34.10.0 £107.5.0 Prooff


I Neil McInnes Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing
rates & duties They amount in whole to One hundred & Seven pound ten shillings Sterling And I do
make oath that requisitions were left or made with the foregoing Inhabitants or at their dwelling
houses of the respective dates aforesaid to return their respective lists as therein required And
which they are charged to the rates & duties sett against their several names Neil McInnes Surveyor
I further certify that upon the Seventh day of December Idelivered to Mr John Durno Collector
of the above duties an exact duplicate of the above account duly examined & Compared
Neil McInnes Surveyor

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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