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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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180 Single Female Servants of married & unmarried persons for one year as above at 2/6s [£0.2.6] each £22.10.0
52 Single Female Servants (in pairs) of married & unmarried persons for one year as above at 5/s [£0.5.0] each £13.0.0
6 Single Female Servants (in treebles) of married & unmarried persons for one year as above at 10/s [£0.10.0] each £3.0.0
26 Female Servants (Single) of unmarried Male persons above the age of 21 Additional dutie at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each £3.5.0
6 Single Female Servants (pairs) of unmarried Male persons above the age of 21 Additional dutie at 5/s [£0.5.0] £1.10.0
Totall £43.5.0

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing duties
I find they amount in whole to Forty three Pounds five Shillings Sterling and that upon the [blank] of March 1787
I delivered to Mr James Dick Collector of the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the
above Account / as will appear from [blank] / duly examined and compared with the foregoing,
which contained my Oath that nottices were left with the several person before named or at their dwelling
of the dates annexed to their respective names requiring them within fourteen days to give in a list of their
Servants retained or employed by them from the fifth day of April 1785 to the fifth day of April 1786 and
that the said account or Survey is made out from the lists returned to me, and from the best information I could
procure of the Servants of those who neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the Nottices
left with them as aforesaid. William Greig 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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