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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 22 - Counties (M-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/22

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6 B. [Bachelor] Servants @ £0.5.0 is £1.10.0
4 Servants @ £0.10.0 is £2.0.0
3 Servants @ £1. 0.0 is £3.0.0
32 Servants @ £0.2.6 is £4.0.0
10 Servants @ £0.5.0 £2.10.0
41 Servants @ £0.10.0 is £20.10.0
Sum Total £33.10
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I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful examination I find the above duties
amount to the Sum of Thirty three pound Ten Shillings and that upon the ___ day of ___ I delivered to John
Rutherford Collector of those duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above which containd my Oath that the
preceeding Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions of the dates foresaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver
or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose an attested list of all the Servants Horses and Carriages used and
employed by then from the fifth of April 1789 to the fifth of April 1790 as well as an Account of what Servants Horses and Carriages
they might use and employ any where else and that the foregoing report was made up from their Several Attested lists or
returns to me from the best Information I could procure or from my own certain knowledge of their Respective
Establishments.
William Brunton

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 22 - Counties (M-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/22

Volume 22 contains female servant tax rolls for the following counties: Midlothian, Morayshire, Nairnshire, Orkney, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland, Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian and Wigtownshire.

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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