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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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LOCHMABEN
Report of the FEMALE SERVANTS TAX In the Burgh
of Lochmaben for the Year Ending 5 Apr 1791 William Currie Surveyor
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I William Currie Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination
I find the foregoing duties Amount to the sum of ten shillings st [sterling] and that upon the
11 day of Janr [January] 1791 I delivered to Provest Maxwell Colr. [Collector] of said duties an exact duplicate of
which Accompt duly examined and Compared which contained my Oath
that the preceeding inhabitants were duely served with Requisitions and that
they were charged in Conformity to their Several returns & according
to my knowledge and belief that they were Liable in said duties
[Signed] William Currie Surveyor
[Signed] Joseph Johnston J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

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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