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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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Survey of the FEMALE SERVANTS TAX in the Royalty of Lauder
from the 5 April 1791 to the 5 April 1792. by William Johnstone Survr. [Surveyor]

Proof 3 Servants at £0.3.6 is £0.7.6
and 10 pcent [percent] on £0.7.6 is £0.0.9
£0.8.3

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That after carefull examination I find the foregoing duties amount
to the sum of Eight shillings three pence Ster. [Sterling] And that upon the 27 Octr. [October] 1791 I delivered to Robert Romaines
Collector of these duties an exact duplicate of this accompt duely examined & compared which contained my Oath
that the foregoing inhabitants were duely served with requisitions and tthat they were charged according to their
several Returns according to my knowledge & belief that they were liable in said duties.
[Signed] William Johnstone Surveyor

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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