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Date Masters & mistresses names & designations Servants names Quality of servants Number of servants Bachelor servants One and two servants Three and four servants Five to seven servants Eight to ten servants Eleven or more servants Duty
Proof Male Servant Tax £193.5.0
26 Batchelors Servants £1.5.0 each over and above the Duty £32.10.0
53 Servants at £1.5.0 each £66.5.0
31 Servants at £1.10.0 each £46.10.0
16 Servants at £1.15.0 each £28.0.0
10 Servants at £2.0.0 £20.0.0
£193.5.0

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I John Veitch Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Careful examination of
the foregoing Several Rates and Duties I find the amount in whole to the sum of one
hundred and Ninety three pounds five shillings Sterling, and that upon the 23 Dec [December]
1786 I transmitted to Robert Blair Collector of said Duties for the Shire aforesaid
an exact Duplicate of the above account Duly examined and Compared with the
foregoing which Contained my oath that requisitions were lef with the Several foregoing
Inhabitants or at their Dwelling Houses with the Dates annexed to their respective
names and that Assessments were made from the answers sent me and now in my
possession.
John Veitch Junr [Junior] Surveyor

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