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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 25 - Counties (A-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/25

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Survey of the Duties on Female Servants in the Shire of Lanerk for the Year from the 5th April 1790 to the 5th of April 1791
Surveyed from the 10th of June to the 4th of August 1791 by William Mure Surveyor
LANARKSHIRE
FEMALE SERVANTS TAX.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 25 - Counties (A-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/25

Volume 25 contains female servant tax rolls for the following counties: Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Buteshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian, Fife, Angus, Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Lanarkshire.

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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