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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 Burgh of Killrennie from the 5th April 1789
FEMALE SERVANTS TAX.
to 5th April 1790 By Charles Robb Surveyor
KILRENNY 22 31

Prooff
2 Servants at 2/6 [£0.2.6] Each is £0.5.0
£0.5.0

I Charles Robb surveyor afforsaid Do hereby certify that upon carefull Examination of
the foregoing duites I find they Amount in whole to five shillings starling and that upon the
Seventeen Day of November I Delivered to Robert Pratt 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 were Left with the several
parsons before named or at there Dwelling houses of the Dates Anexted to there 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
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 Lists are Deficiant Neglected or Refused to give in a List there of in
termes of the Nottices Left with them As Aforesaid

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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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