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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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SELKIRK

A Survey of the [FEMALE SERVANTS TAX] in the Burgh of Selkirk
from the 5 of Aprile 1790 to the 5 of Aprile 1791 By William Brunton Surveyor
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2 Female Servants @ £0.5.0 each is £0.10.0
2 Female Servants @ £0.2.6 each is £0.5.0
Sum Total £0.15.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I find the
above dutys amount to the Sum of fifteen Shillings and that upon the __ day of __ I delivered to
Mr. Patrick Taitt Collector of these dutys for the Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above
which Containd my Oath that the preeceding Inhabitants were duly served with Requsitions of the dates foresaid
desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose an attested
list of all the Servants horses and Carriages used and employed by them from the 5 of Aprile 1789 to the 5 of Aprile
1790 as well as an account of what Servants horses and Carriages they might use or employ any where Else and
that the forgoing report was made up from their Several attested Lists or Returns to me from the best information
I coud procure or from my own Certain knowledge of their respective Establishments
William Brunton

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Surveyors statement crossed out and rewritten.

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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