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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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Stirling Borough Survey contd. [Continued]
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12 bachelor servants @ £0.5.0 is £3.0.0
43 servants@ £0.2.6 is £5.7.6
4 servants @ £0.5.0 is £1.0.0
£9.7.6

I James Allan Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby Certify, That upon carefull
Examination I find the foregoing duties Amount to the sum of Nine pounds seven
Shillings and six pence and that upon the 11, day of Decem [December] I delivered to Mr. Thomas Paterson
Collector of said duties an exact duplicate of this Account 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, now in my possession
or according to my knowledge and belief that they were liable in said duties
James Allan Surveyor
Alloa 13 December 1790

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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