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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
08 Feb [1788] Mr Peter Rankine B. [Bachelor] 1 1 £0.5.0
Revd [Reverend] George Skene 1 1 £0.2.6
David Mann Sen [Senior] 1 1 £0.2.6
Robert White B. [Bachelor] 1 1 £0.5.0
John Scott 1 1 £0.2.6
Andrew Binny 1 1 £0.2.6
William Hunter 1 1 £0.2.6
David Watt 1 1 £0.2.6
Revd [Reverend] W Bruce 1 1 £0.2.6
Provost Ure --2 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Webster 1 1 £0.2.6
David Webster 1 1 £0.2.6
Andrew Binny 1 1 £0.2.6
Benjamin Kitchen 1 1 £0.2.6
14 2 12 £2.0.0

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FORFAR
Forfar FEMALE SERVANTS TAX. for the year ending
5th April 1789 by Daniel Ross
[Page] 129

Proof 12 Female Servants at £0.2.6 each £1.10.0
2 Bach [Bachelor] Servants at £0.5.0 each £0.10.0
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£2.0.0

I Daniel Ross Surv. [Surveyor] aforesaid, do hereby certify that upon careful examination
I find the foregoing duties amount to the Sum of Two pounds Sterling -
and that upon the Third day of March 1788 I delivd. [delivered] to Patrick Barry
Collr [Collector] for the burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of this Acct. [Account], which
contained my oath that the preceding inhts [inhabitants] were duly Served with requisitions
of the date foresaid and that they were charged according to their Several returns
to me, inconsequence thereof, and according to the best information I could procure,
of which the foregoing is accurate and just state.
Daniel Ross Surveyor

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