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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 28 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/28

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INVERARY
Report Survey FEMALE SERVANTS TAX Burgh of Inverary
for the year ending the 5th of April 1792 By Duncan MacNiuer Surveyor.

I Duncan MacNiuer Surveyor Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull examination of
the foregoing several rates and duties I find they amount in whole to Four pounds five shillings and
threepence, And that upon the 21 February 1792 I delivered to Peter MacArthur Depute Collector
the said for Argyllshire an exact Duplicate of the above Account duly examined and compared
with the foregoing which contained my Oath that Requisitions were given to the
whole foregoing persons or left at their dwelling houses of the rate aforesaid and that
the above Account was made up from the returns made to me in consequence
thereof, and from the best information I could otherwise obtain. Duncan Mac Nuirer

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 28 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/28

Volume 28 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, 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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