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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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Prooff 4 Bachelors for four Female Servants @ £0.3.9 Each for 3/4 of a year is -- £0.15.0
41 Female Servants @ £0.1.10½ Each for 3/4 of a year is -- £3.16.10½
2 Female Servants @ 3/9 Each for 3/4/ of a year is -- £0.7.6
3 Female Servants @ 7/6 Each for 3/4 of a year is -- £0.2.6 -- £6.1.10½

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Careful Examination of the foregoing Several Rates
and Duties I find they Amount in whole to the Sum of Six Pounds One Shilling and ten pence halpenny
and that upon the Eight day of March I delivered to William Drysdall Collector for the Brugh
aforesaid an Exact Duplicat of the Above Account duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing which
Contained my Oath that Values 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.
Charles Robb 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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