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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
28 Jul 1788 Annan Burgh
Miss Graham in Annan Margaret Graham house Ser. [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Halliday in Annan Jenet Irving House Servt. [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Provost Johnston in Annan Agnes Beattie House Servant 1 1 £0.2.6
John Johnston of Murrayfield Helen Dickson House Servant 1 1 £0.2.6
4 4 £0.10.0

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ANNAN
Survey of the Female Servants Tax in the Burgh of
Annan from the 5th of Aprile 1788 to 5th of Aprile 1789 by William Currie Surveyor
[Page] 17

Proof 4 Female Servts [servants] at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each is £0.10.0.

I William Currie Aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing Several Rates and
Duties I find they Amount in whole to Ten Shillings Sterlg [Sterling] and that upon the 26 day of December 1788 I
delivered to Mr John Irving Collector for the said duties for the Burgh Aforesaid an Exact duplicate of the
foregoing which Containd my Oath that notices were left with the Several Inhabitants or at their dwelling
Houses of the date anexed to their Respective names - and that the Above is the Returns made by them to me
or Where that faild by the best Infermation I Could Get.
William Currie Surveyor

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