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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 23 - Burghs (A-F) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/23

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Crail
Female Servants Tax
Survey of the Burgh of Crail from the 5th April 1790 to 5th April 1791 by Charles Robb Surveyor

Proof
6 Servants at £0.2.6 Each is £0.15.0
£0.15.0

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaed do hereby certify that upon carefull Examination of the foregoing duties, I find
they Amount in whole to Fifteen Shillings Sterling and that upon the Seventeen day of November
I delivered to David Gilles Collector of the saed duties for the Burgh aforesaed an Exact duplicat of the above
Account duly Examined and compared with the foregoing which Contained my Oath that Nottices were
left with the Several parsons befor named or at their dwelling houses of the dates Anexed to their respective
names requiring them within fourteen dayes to give in alist of their Carriage or Saddle horses (Retained or Employed
by them from the 5th day of April 1789 to 5th day of April 1790 and the saed Account or Survey is mede Out
from the list returned to me and from the Best Information I could procure of the Carriage or Saddle (horses of those
whose lists are deficiant Neglected or refused in alist thereof in terms of the notice left with them as aforesaed
Charles Robb Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 23 - Burghs (A-F) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/23

Volume 23 contains female servant tax rolls for the following burghs: Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Anstruther Wester, Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Burntisland, Campbeltown, Crail, Cullen, Culross, Cupar, Dingwall, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dysart, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, and Fortrose.

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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