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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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[Page] 71 DUNFERMLINE

Survey in the Burgh of Dumfermline from the 5th April 1790
to 5th April 1791 By Charles Robb Surveyor

Prooff
5 Servants Bachelors at £0.5.0 Each is £1.5.0
12 Servants at £0.2.6 Each is £1.10.0
£2.15.0

I Charlis Robb Surveyor aforsaid hearby certifye that upon Carefull Examination
of the foregoing Duties I find they amount in whole to two pound fiveteen shillings
Sterlling and that upon the Twenty third Day of November I Delivered to James Blackwood
Collector of the said Duties for the Burgh aforsaid an Exact duplicat of the Above
Account Duly Examined and compaired with the foregoing which Contained my Oath
that Nottices wer Left with the Severall parsons befor named or at there Dwelling
houses of the Date anexed to there Respective names Requiring them within four
-teen Days to Give in a List of there Carriage or Saddle horses Retained or employed
by them from the 5 Day of April 1789 to the 5 Day of April 1791 and that the
Said Account or Survey is mede out from the list retwrned to Me and from the best
Information I coul procure of the Carriage or Saddle horses of thos whous List ar Defi
-ciant Neglected or Refused to Give in a List thereof in termes of the Nottices Left
with them as aforesaid
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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