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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 8 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/8

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113 ROTHESAY

FEMALE SERVANTS TAX
From 5 April1786 to 5 April 1787
By John Veitch Surveyor

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1 Batchelor Servant at 5/ [£0.5.0] is £0.5.0
5 Servants at 2/6 [£0.2.6] is £0.12.6
£0.17.6

I John Veitch Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Carefull
examination of the foregoing several rates and Duties I find the amount
in whole to the sum of Seventeen Shillings and Sixpence Sterling and that upon
the 8th December 1786 I transmitted to Allexander May Collector of the said
Duties for the shire aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above account Duly ex=
=amined and Compared with the foregoing which Contained my oath that
requisitions were left with the several foregoing Inhabitants or at their
dwelling House of the dates annexed to their respective names and that the
assessments were made from the answers sent me and now in my possession
[Signed] John Veitch junr [junior] Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 8 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/8

Volume 8 contains female servant tax rolls for the following burghs: Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, Inverbervie, Inverkeithing, Inverness, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kilrenny, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Peebles, Pittenweem, Perth, Queensferry, Renfrew, Rothesay, Rutherglen, St. Andrews, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, and Wigtown.

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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