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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 24 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/24

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I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaid dou hereby Certifye that upon Careful Examination
of the forgoing Duits I find they Amount in whole to Six pound ten shillings sterling
and that upon the Eighteen Day of November I Delivered to Andrew Gullen Collector
of the said Duties for the Burgh aforesaid an Exact Duplicat of the Above Account
Duly Examined and Compaired with the forgoing which Contained my Oath that
Nottice were Left with the severall parsons before Named or at there Dwelling houses
of the Dates Anexed to their Respective names Requiring them within fourteen Days
to Give in a List of there Carriage or saddle horses Retained or Employed by them from
the 5 Day of April 1799 to the 5 Day of April 1790 and that the said Account
or Survey is Made Out from the List returned to Me and from best Information I could
procure of the Carriage or Saddle horses of thos whouse Lits are Deficiant Negleted or
Refused to give in a List there of in termes of the Nottices Left with them as Aforesaid

Female Servant Tax
St Andrews £6.10.0
Charles Robb Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 24 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/24

Volume 24 contains female servant tax rolls for the following burghs: Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, Inverkeithing, Inverness, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kilrenny, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Peebles, Pittenweem, Perth, Queensferry, Renfrew, Rothesay, Rutherglen, St. Andrews, Sanquhar, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, and Wigtown.

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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