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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 7 - Burghs (A-F) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/7

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City of Edinr [Edinburgh] from 1786 To 1787


172 at 5/ each £43.0.0
52 at 10/ each £26.0.0
3 at £1 each £3.0.0
1097 £137.2.6
472 £118.0.0
163 £81.10.0
Total £408.12.6

I John Maughan Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing Rates
and Duties I find they Amount in the whole to Four Hundred & Eight Pounds Twelve Shillings Six pence Sterling
And that upon the Twenty Sixth Day of December 1786 I delivered to Mr George McQueen Collector of the said
Duties for the City of Edinburgh an exact Duplicate of the foregoing Accompt duly examined & compared which contained
my Certificate that Notices were left with the several Inhabitants or at their Dwelling Houses of the Dates annexed to
their respective names.
John Maughan Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 7 - Burghs (A-F) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/7

Volume 7 contains female servant tax rolls for the following burghs: Aberdeen, Anstruther Easter, Anstruther Wester, Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Burntisland, Campbeltown, Crail, Cullen, Culross, Cupar, Dingwall, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dysart, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, and Fortrose.

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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