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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
Dec 1785 Mr David Ross Clark B: [Bachelor] Isobel Ross 1 1 £0.3.9
Bailie Alexander Manson B. [Bachelor] Kathrine Ross 1 1 £0.3.9
Benjamin Ross Mercht. [Merchant] B. [Bachelor] house maid 1 1 £0.3.9
Mrs Reid house maid 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mrs Ross Clerks relict housemaid 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mr Alexander Chisolm Clerk Letters 1st Jan [January] 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mrs Lieut [Lieutenant] Ross house maid 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mrs Munro Mr Josephs relict Margaret McPherson 1 1 £0.1.10½
Baillie George Miller house maid 1 1 £0.1.10½
Hugh MacFarquhar Surveyor Margaret Munro 1 1 £0.1.10½
10 3 7 £1.4.4½

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A Survey of the Rates & Duties on Female Servants Assessed the Burgh of Tain
from 5th July 1785 to 5th April 1786 By Hugh MacFarquhar Surveyor

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3 Batchelors Servants at £0.3.9 each is £0.11.3
7 Servants at £0.1.10½ is £0.13.1½
£1.4.4½ Total
I Hugh MacFarquhar Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby certify that after carefull Examination
of the foregoing Rates & Duties, I find they Amount in whole to One pound four shillings
& four pence pence half pennsi, And that an exact Duplicate of the above Act [Account] in my own
hand as present Treasurer of the Burgh Aforesaid & Collector of said Duties
Mr H MacFarquhar Surveyor
Tain 14th July 1786

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