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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 in the Burgh of Innerkithing from the 5th April 1789
to 5th April 1790 By Charles Robb Surveyor.
INVERKEITHING 18 27

Prooff
7 Servants at 2/6 [£0.2.6] Each is £0.17.6
£0.17.6

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaid do hearby certifye that upon carefull Examination
of the foregoing Duties I find they Amount in whole to seventeen shillings and six
pence starling and that upon the Twenty third Day of November I delivered to John
Killick Collector of the said Duties for the Burgh aforesaid an Exact Duplicat
of the Above Account duly Examined and compared with the foregoing which
contained My Oath that Nottice wer 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 1789 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 the best information I could procure of the Carriage or saddle horses of
thos whous List are Deficent neglected or Refused to Give in a List thereof in termes
of the Nottices Left with them as aforsaid.
[Signed] Charles Robb Surveyor

[Page] 35

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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