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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 John Veitch Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Carefull examination of
the foregoing Rates and duties I find the amount in whole to the sum of thirteen pounds
Seven shillings and Six pence Sterling and that upon the 22d January 1787 I transmitted
to Robert Colquhoun Collr. [Collector] of said duties for the shire aforesaid an exact Duplicate of
the above accot. [account] duly examined and Compared with the foregoing which Contained my
oath that requisitions were left with the several foregoing Inhabitants or at their dwelling
houses of the dates annexed to their respective names & that the assessments were made from
the answers sent me & now in my possession John Veitch junr. [junior] Surveyor



Famale Servant Tax
in Dumbarton Shire

£13.7.6

3/10

Exd. [Examined]

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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