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Volume contents
- 1 - 1790-91 , Aberdeenshire
- 17 - 1790-91 , Argyll
- 23 - 1790-91 , Ayrshire
- 41 - 1790-91 , Banffshire
- 45 - 1790-91 , Berwickshire
- 53 - 1790-91 , Buteshire
- 57 - 1790-91 , Caithness
- 61 - 1790-91 , Clackmannanshire
- 67 - 1790-91 , Cromartyshire
- 69 - 1790-91 , Dunbartonshire
- 73 - 1790-91 , Dumfriesshire
- 79 - 1790-91 , East Lothian (Haddingtonshire)
- 87 - 1790-91 , Fife
- 97 - 1790-91 , Angus (Forfarshire)
- 105 - 1790-91 , Inverness-shire
- 107 - 1790-91 , Kincardineshire
- 111 - 1790-91 , Kinross-shire
- 115 - 1790-91 , Kirkcudbrightshire
- 121 - 1790-91 , Lanarkshire
| Date | Masters/mistresses names and designations | Children under 14 | Servants names | Number of servants | Bachelor servants | One servant | Two servants | Three or more servants | Duty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract of the Foregoing | 224 | 18,6,4 | 59 | 50 | 87 | £74.17.6 | |||
| Prooff 18 Batchelor Servants at 5/ [£0.5.0] Each for 1 year is | £4.10.0 | ||||||||
| 6 Batchelor Servants at 10/- [£0.10.0] Each for 1 year is | £3.0.0 | ||||||||
| 4 Batchelor Servants at £1.0.0 Each for 1 year is | £4.0.0 | ||||||||
| 59 Servants at 2/6 [£0.2.6] Each for 1 year is | £7.7.6 | ||||||||
| 50 Servants at 5/- [£0.5.0] Each for 1 year is | £12.10.0 | ||||||||
| 87 Servants at 10/- [£0.10.0] Each for 1 year is | £43.10.0 | ||||||||
| £74.17.6 |
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I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull Examination
of the foregoing duties I find they amount in whole to Seventy four pounds Seventeen
Shillings & Sixpence Sterling, And that upon the Twenty ninth day of November
I delivered to Charles Mitchell Esqr at the Hill near Dumfermline Collector of the said
duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account duly examined
& compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath that notices were left
with the Several persons before named Or at their dwelling houses of the
dates annexed to their respective names requiring them within forteen days to
give in a List of their Cariage or Saddle Horses retained or Employed by
them from the 5th day of April 1789 to the 5 day of April 1790 and that the
Said Account or Survey is made out from the Lists returned to me and from the
best information I could procure of the Carriage or Saddle horses & of those whose
Lists are defficiente, neglected or refused to give in a List in terms of the
Notices left with them as aforesaid
Charles Robb 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).