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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 Pittenweem from the 5th April 1789
FEMALE SERVANTS TAX.
to 5th April 1790 by Charles Robb Surveyor
PITTENWEEM 43 52

Prooff
1 Servant at 2/6 [£0.2.6] £0.2.6
£0.2.6

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforsaed do hereby certify that upon careful Examination of the foregoing
duties I find they amount in whole to Two Shillings and Six pence Sterlling and that upon the nineteen
day of November I delivered to William McIntosh Collector for the saed duties for the Burgh aforsaed
an Exact duplicat of the above Account duly Examined and compared with the foregoing which
Contained My oath that Nottices were left with the Several parsons befor named or at their dwelling houses
of the dates anexed to their Respective names Requiring them within fourteen dayes to give in alist of
their 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 saed Amount or Survey is mede Out from the list returned to me and from the Best Information
I could procure of the Carriage or Saddle horses & of those whose lists or deficiant Neglected or Refused to give in
alist there of in termes of the Nottices left with them as aforesaed

Charles Robb 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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