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Date	Masters/mistresses names and designations	Servants names	Number of servants	Bachelor servants	One servant	Duty
	Within the Country Parishes of the Shire of Bute
1787	Island of Bute
10 Oct 1787	Earl of Bute	Abigail Muir	1		1	£0.2.6
	Peter May Esquire Mountstewart	Margaret Fraser	1		1	£0.2.6
	Total		2		2	£0.5.0
	Island of Arran
	Kilbride Parish
24 Oct 1787	Mr William Cochran Arran Castle a Batchelor	Margaret Currie	1	1		£0.5.0
	Mr Garshgin Stewart Minister Kilbride	Ann Hamilton	1		1	£0.2.6
	Capt [Captain] James Hamilton of the Prince William Henry Calter	Janet Hamilton	1		1	£0.2.6
	Total		3	1	2	£0.10.0
	County Parishes Collected
	Island of Bute		2		2	£0.5.0
	Island of Arran, Kilbride Parish		3	1	2	£0.10.0
	Total		5	1	4	£0.15.0

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[Page] 69
BUTE

Female Servants Tax.
From 5th April 1787 to 5th April 1788 By Robert Aiken Surveyor

Proof
Batchelors Servants 1 @ £0.5.0
Married Peoples Servants 4 @ 2/6 [£0.2.6] £0.10.0
Total by Proof £0.15.0

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid, Do hereby certify that upon careful Examination of the
foregoing Rates and Duties, I find they amount in whole to Fifteen shillings sterling And that
upon the twenty sixth day of January current I caused to be delivered to Alexander May
Esquire Collector of said duties, an Exact duplicate of and duly Examined & Compared
with the foregoing Account which contained my Oath that Notifications were delivered or
left of the dates foresaid, And that the Rates 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. And I am now possessed of the said Alexander Mays Letter of
the above date Acknowledging the Receipt of said duplicate.
Robert Aiken Surveyor

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