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

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2 Servants Bachelors at £0.5.0 Each is £0.10.0
13 Servants at £0.2.6 Each is £1.12.6
£2.2.6

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful Examination
of the foregoing Duties I find they Amount in whole to two pound two shilling and
six pence sterling and that upon the Seventeen Day of November I Delivered to David Swine
Collector of the said Deuties for the Burgh aforesaid and exact Duplicat of the
Above Account Duly Examined and compaired with the foregoing which
Contained my Oath that Nottices were left with the several parsons before named
or at there Dwelling houses of the Dates Anexed to them Respective mames requiring
them within fourteen Day to Give in a List of there Carraige or Saddle horses & retained
or Employed by them from the 5 Day of April 1789 to the 5 Day of April 1790 And
that 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 whows list are
Dificiant neglected or refused to give in a List there in termes of the Notices 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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