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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 26 - Counties (M-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/26

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5 Female servants @ £0.5.0 each is £1.5.0
2 Female servants @ £0.10.0 each is £1.0.0
6 Female servants @ £1.0.0 each is £6.0.0
26 Female servants @ £0.2.6 each is £3.5.0
16 Female servants @ £0.5.0 each is £4.0.0
29 Female servants @ £0.10.0 each is £14.10.0
£30.0.0
£29.12.6 @ Ten per cent is £ 3.0.0
Total £33.0.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful examination I find the above dutys [duties] to the Sum of
Thirty three and that upon the Twenty day of October I delivered to John Rutherford
Collector of these dutys for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above which containd my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were
duly served with requisituons of the dates foresaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to me upon calling
for that purpose an attested list of all the Servants horses and carriages used and employed by then from the fifth of April Ninety one
to the fifth of April Ninety two as well as an Account of what Servants horses and Carriages they might use and employ any where else
and that the foregoing report was made up from their Several Attested lists or Returns to me from the best information I could procure
or from my own certain knowledge of their respective establishments.
William Brunton

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 26 - Counties (M-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/26

Volume 26 contains female servant tax rolls for the following counties: Midlothian, Morayshire, Nairnshire, Orkney, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland, Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian and Wigtownshire.

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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