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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 4 - Burghs (G-T) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/4

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A Survey of the Duties on Female Servants in the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen from the 5th of July
1785 to the 5th of April 1786 by William Mure Surveyor
RUTHERGLEN [Page] 117

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1 Female Servant at £0.2.6 per year for three Quarters of a year is £0.1.10½
Grand Total......................£0.1.10½

I William Mure Survey aforesaid, do hereby certify , That, upon carefull Examination of
the foregoing Several Rates and Duties, I find they amount, in whole, to one shilling and
Tenpence two Farthing Sterling, and that, upon the [blank] I delivered to
[blank] Collector of the said Duties for the Burgh aforesaid, an exact Duplicate of the
Above Account, duly examined and compared with the foregoing, which contained may Oath,
that Notices were left with the Several Inhabitants, or at their Dwelling - houses, of the Dates
Annexed to their respective Names, that they were to be charged with the Sums hereby certified
to be Due from them by me William Mure Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 4 - Burghs (G-T) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/4

Volume 4 contains female servant tax rolls for the following burghs: Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, Inverbervie, Inverkeithing, Inverness, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kilrenny, Kirkcaldy, Kirkwall, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Peebles, Pittenweem, Perth, Queensferry, Renfrew, Rothesay, Rutherglen, St. Andrews, Stirling, and Tain.

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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