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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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Female Servants Tax

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certifye that carefull Examination
of the foregoing Duties, I find they Amount in whole to seven pounds pounds twelve shillings and
six pence Starling and that upon the Eighteen day of Nov"ber [November] I delivered to
Alexander Simpson Collector of the said Duties for the Burgh aforesaid an Exact
Duplicat of the Above Account Duley Examined and Compared with the foregoing
which Contained My Oath that Nottice wer left with the Several parsons
before Named or at their Dwelling houses of the Dates Anexed to their Respective
[names] Reqwiring them within fourteen Days to Give in a List 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 said 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 thos whous Lists are Deficiant Neglected or
Refused to Give in a List thereof in termes of the Nottices Left with them as a foresaid
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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