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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Children under 14 Servants names Number of servants Bachelor servants One servant Two servants Three or more servants Duty 10% per 31 George III
2 Apr 1791 Sanquhar
Provest Whigham Daly McCall 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mr Thomson 6
Mrs Peat above 60 years
James Crychton above 60 years
[Total] £0.2.6 £0.0.3

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[Page] 97
Survey of the Female Servants Tax in the Burgh of Sanquhar
from the 5th of Aprile 1791 to the 5 Aprile 1792 by William Currie Surveyor

Proof 1 Servant is £0.2.6
10 pr Cent £0.0.3
Total £0.2.9

I William Currie Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination
I find the foregoing duties Amount to this sum of Two shillings and Nine pence St [Sterling]
and that upon the Twenty fourth day of Novr [November] Seventeen hundred and Ninety one Years
I delivered to Provost Lorimer Collr [Collector] of said duties an exact duplicate of which Acct [Account]
duly examined and Compared which contained my Oath that the Preceding
Inhabitants were duly Served with requisitions And that they were Charged in Conformity
to their Severall returns and according to my knowledge and belief that they were Liable
in said duties..............[signed] by William Currie Surveyor
[signed] Joseph Johnstone J P [Justice of the Peace]

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