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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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I William Currie Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination
I find the foregoing duties Amount to the sum of twenty four pounds fifteen
shillings st [Sterling] and that upon the 11th day of December 1790 I delivered to Mr. Francis
Maxwell Colltr. [Collector] of said duties an exact duplicate of which Accompts duly
examined and Compared which contained my Oath that the preceeding
Inhabitants were duly Served with requisitions And that they were Charged
in Conformity to their Several returns & according to any knowledge and
belief that the were Liable in said duties
William Currie Surveyor
Joseph Johnston J. P. [Justice of the Peace]

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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