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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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Survey of the FEMALE SERVANTS TAX in the Burgh of
Wigton from the 5th of April 1790. to 1791 by Anthony Macmillan Surveyor
WIGTOWN 57 66

I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do here by Certify that upon careful
examination of the foregoing several rates & duties I find they amount in
whole to the sum of five shillings sterling; and that upon the Twenty first
day of december one thousand of seven hundred & ninety years I delivered
to Mr John McKairly Collector of the said duties & for the Burgh aforesd [aforesaid]
an exact Dulicate of teh foregoing which contained my oath that reqns [requisitions]
on Notices were delivered to or left at the Dwelling Houses of the
said several Persons of the Date & annexed to there respective Name & that
they were to be charged with the sums hereby certified to be due from
them Anthony Macmillan Surveyor

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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

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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