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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
15 Jul 1788 Burgh of Rutherglen
Mrs. Gray Jean Miller Housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr. David Scott Writer -- 5 Two Female Servants 2
Robert Park Esq. -- 4 Two Female Servants 2
George White Esq. of Bankhead -- 5 One Female Servant 1
John Paterson Esq. of Springhall-- 4 Two Female Servants 2
Total [ Children under 14 - 18] 8 1 £0.2.6
Grand Total £0.2.6

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[Page] 115 RUTHERGLEN

A Survey of the Duties on Female Servants in the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen for the Year from the 5th April 1788
To the 5th April 1789 By William Mure Surveyor

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1 Female Servant at £0.2.6 each per year is £0.2.6
Grand Total £0.2.6
Children Under 14 years of age 18
Female Servants Free of Duty 7
Female Servants Charged with Duty 1
Total 8

I William Mure Surveyor Aforesaid, do hereby Certify that, upon Carefull Examination of
the foregoing Several Rates & Duties, I find they amount in whole to Two Shillings
& sixpence Sterling, and that, upon the -- I delivered to
Mr. David Park Collector of the said Duties for the Aforesaid Burgh, an Exact
Duplicate of the above Account, duely Examined & Compared with the foregoing,
which Contained my Oath, that Notices were left with the Several Inhabitants,
or at their dwelling houses, of the dates annexed to their Respective names that
they were to be Charged with the Sumes hereby Certified to be due from them.
By me William Mure

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