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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 5 - Counties (A-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/5

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I Henry Watson Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull Examination
of the foregoing several Rates & Duty's I find they amount to the Sum of Sixty seven Pounds
seven Shillings and six Pence Sirling And that upon the ___________
I deliverd to David Renton in Eymouth Collector of the said Duty's for the County
of Berwick an exact Duplicate of the forgoing Acct. [Account] duely Examined and Compared
with the forgoing, and which Contained my Oath that Requisitions were sent to
the several forgoing Inhabitants, and that They were charged according to their
Answers made to said Requisitions
Henry Watson Surveyor.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 5 - Counties (A-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/5

Volume 5 contains female servant tax rolls for the following counties: Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Buteshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian, Fife, Angus, Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Lanarkshire.

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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