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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Servants names Number of servants Bachelor servants One servant Two servants Three or more servants Duty
1785 Doctor Burnurd Burn House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.1.10½
Dec 1785 Mr Murdoch McKenzie Mercht [Merchant] Hellen Munro 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mrs McKenzie Schoolmsts. [Schoolmistress] Isobel Loban 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mr Petter Hay Mercht. [Merchant] House maids 2 2 £0.7.6
Mr Daniel Rose Minr. [Minister] B. [Batchelor] Isobel Mackay 1 1 £0.3.9
6 1 3 2 £0.16.10½

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DINGWALL
A Survey of the Rates & Duties on Female Servants Arisen in the Burgh of Dingwall
from 5th July 1785 to 5th April 1786. By Hugh MacFarquahar Surveyor

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1 Batchelor Servt [Servant] @ 3/9 is £0.3.9
3 Servants @ 1/10½ [£0.1.10½] is £0.5.7½
2 Servants @ 3/9 [£0.3.9] is £0.7.6
£0.16.10½ Total

I Hugh MacFarquhar Surveyor aforesaid hereby certify that upon carefull examination
of the foregoing Rates & Duties I find they Amount in Whole to Sixteen Shillings & tenpence
half pennie, And that upon the eleventh day of this current Month of Febry [February] I delivered
to Roderrik Morrison Collector of said Duties for the Burgh aforesaid, an exact Duplicate
of the above Acct [Account] duly examined and compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath
that the above list contains the number of Servants returned to me by the aforesaid masters
and mistresses and that are kept as imployed by them according to the best of my knowledge
or information
H. MacFarquhar
Tain 14 Febry [February] 1786

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