E326/5/21/47

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Survey of the Rates and Duties upon Male Servants within the Country Parishes of ButeShire
from 5th April 1793 to 5th April 1794 By Robert Aiken

Prooff
2 Bachrs [Bachelor] Servants at £1.5.0 each is £2.10.0
2 Servants at £ 1.5.0 is £2.10.0
2 [Servants] at £3.0.0 each is £6.0.0
[sub-total] £11.0.0
10 PerCent thereon £ 1.2.0
Total by proof £12.2.0

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Careful Examination
of the foregoing rates and Duties I find they amount to Eleven pounds sterling which with the Ten
per Cent duty thereon being one pound two shillings sterling makes them amount in whole to the
sum of Twelve pounds two shillings st [sterling] and that upon the Eighteenth day of
November Current I caused deliver to Alexander May Esq Collector of said duties for said County
at his Office an exact Duplicate of and duly examined & Compared with the foregoing acco [account]
which contained my oath that notifications were delivered or left of the dates foresaid that the
Rates and duties charged in said account were just and true to the best of my skill and knowledge
and to the best of my belief no person liable to be charged was omitted

[signed] Robert Aiken

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Transcriber's notes

The Earl of Bute had a large staff at other properties - the full household was not at Mountstewart when the survey was taken, but the 2 servants there are counted as part of a total of 11 or more