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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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A Survey of the Duties on Female Servants in the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen Keept from the 5th of April 1789 to the 5th April 1790 surveyed on the 15th July 1790 By William Mure Surveyor
FEMALE SERVANTS TAX.
RUTHERGLEN 48 57

I William Mure Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing several Rates and Duties
I find they amount in Whole to Two Shillings & Six Pence Sterling and that upon the I Delivered to
Mr John Dykes Collector of the said Duties for the Burgh Aforesaid an Exact Duplicat of the above account, Duly Examined
& Compared with the foregoing, which Contained my Oath, that Requisitions were left with the Several inhabitants or at their
Dwelling houses of the dates annexed to their respective names & that they were to be Charged with the Sums hereby Certified
to be due from them WillIam Mure 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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