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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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I Henry Watson Surveyor Aforsaid do hereby Certify That upon careful Examination of the
forgoing several Rates and Duty's I find They Amount to the Sum of Five Pounds
Five Shillings Sterling And that upon the I delivered John Tait
Collector of the said Duty's for the Royalty of Dunbar an exact duplicate of the
forgoing Acct [Accompt] duely Examined and Compared with the forgoing and which contained
my Oath that the Requisitions were sent to the several forgoing Inhabitants
that they are charged the Sum sett against their Respective Names according to the
Answers made me to said Requisitions.
Henry Watson 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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