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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
Jul 1786 Sir Alexander McKenzie of Coul Alice McKenzie
Margret Sinclair
2 2 £0.10.0
Baillie Alexander McKenzie Ann Graham 1 1 £0.2.6
Capt [Captain] Kenneth McKenzie housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
Doctor James Anderson Ann Morison 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr. Malcom McKenzie Margret McKenzie 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr. Barnard Williamson Margret Liston 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Wood Ann Bird 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Rose Marry Read 1 1 £0.2.6
John Munro housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Houston Christian McKenzie 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr. George Robertson Ann Jack 1 1 £0.2.6
12 10 2 £1.15.0

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FORTROSE
[Page] 119

A Survey of the Female Servant Tax. Arisen in the
Burgh of Fortrose from 5th April 1786 to 5th April 1787 by Hugh MacFarquhar Surveyor

Prooff
12 Servants
10 of which @ £0.2.6 each is £1.5.0
2 of which @ £0.5.0 each is £0.10.0
Total £1.15.0


I Hugh MacFarquhar Surveyor aforesaid, Do hereby certify, That upon carefull examination
of the foregoing Rates & Duties, I find they Amount in whole to One pound fifteen shillings
and that upon the sixteenth day of this currt (current) month of November, I delivered to Baillie
Alexander McKenzie resding magistrate, there being no Collector Appointed, an exact Duplicate
of the above Acct [Account] duly examined and compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath
that the above list contained the Number of Servants returned to me by their Masters &
Mistresses, and that were kept or employed by them According to the best of my knowledge or information
Hugh McFarquhar Surveyor

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