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4th
Clackmanan County FEMALE SERVANTS TAX Survey continued

I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon careful Examination of the
foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole to the sum of Eighteen Pounds
Five Shillings and nine pence sterling And that upon the Fourteenth day of October last
I delivered to Mr John Jameson Collector for the foresaid County an Exact Dupplicate of the
foregoing survey which contained my oath that the several persons before named were
duly served with Requisitions and Notices whereby they were to be Charged with the Several
Duties hereby certified to be due by them. James Watson Surveyor
Linlithgow 2nd November 1791

Survey of the Female Servants
Tax in the County of Clackmanan
from the 5th April 1791 to the 5th
April 1792
By
James Watsone Surveyor
Compd [Completed]
Exd. GS [Esamined General Surveyor]
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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

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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