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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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A Survey of the FEMALE SERVANTS TAX in the Shire of Selkirk from the
5 of April 1790 to the 5 of April 1791
By William Brunton, Surveyor. (58)
SELKIRKSHIRE
[Page] 115
Proof
1 B [Bachelor] Servant @ £0.5.0 is £0.5.0
3 Bachelor Servants @ £1.0.0 is £3.0.0
1 Servant @ £0.2.6 is £0.2.6
4 Servants @ £0.5.0 is £1.0.0
6 Servants @ £0.10.0 is £3.0.0
Sum Total £7.7.6

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find the above duties amount to the
Sum of Seven pound Seven Shillings and Sixpence and that upon the -- day of -- I delivered to John Scott Collector
of these duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above which containd my Oath that the preceding 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 them from the 5 of
April 1789 to the 5 of april 1790 as well as an Account of what Servants, horses and Carriages they might use and employ anywhere
else and that the forgoing report was made 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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