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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Children under 14 Servants names Number of servants Bachelor servants One servant Two servants Three or more servants Duty
The Foregoing Divisions Collected
1st Division To Page 4th 34 167 15-2 90 28 15 £30.10.0
2 Division To Page 8 8 143 24 91 18 6 £24.17.6
3 Division To Page 12 26 150 14-2 88 30 3 £24.10.0
4 Division To Page 16 20 148 11-6 97 18 6 £25.7.6
5 Division To Page 20 26 142 15-6 90 18 £22.10.0
6 Division To Page 24 30 149 27-6 76 18 7 £27.5.0
7 Division To Page 28 36 150 14-4 78 24 12 £27.5.0
8 Division To Page 32 48 181 8-2 54 60 33 £41.5.0
9 Division To Page 36 104 240 6-10 56 84 32 £50.10.0
10 Division To Page 40 60 198 13-0-6 74 46 29 £44.10.0
11 Division To Page 44 42 186 19-6 76 60 4 £34.5.0
12 Division To Page 48 187 17-8 92 61 9 £39.10.0
13 Division To Page 50 85 5-2 55 18 5 £16.2.6
Total 434 2126 188-54-6 1017 483 161 £408.7.6
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FEMALE SERVANTS TAX.
City of Edinbr [Edinburgh] from 1789 To 1790

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188 Servants at 5/ [£0.5.0] each £47.0.0
54 Bachelor's Servants Servants at 10/ [£0.10.0] £27.0.0
6 Bachelor's Servants Servants at £1.0.0 £6.0.0
1017 Married Persons Servants Servants at 2/6 [£0.2.6] £127.2.6
483 Married Persons Servants Servants at 5/ [£0.5.0] £120.15.0
161 Married Persons Servants Servants at 10/ £0.10.0] £80.10.0

1909 Total £408.7.6
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2126

I Robert Maughan Surveyor Aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon Careful examination
of the foregoing Accompt I find the Amount in the Whole To be Four hundred and
Eight Pounds Seven Shillings and Sixpence Sterling. And that upon the 13th Day
of February Seventeen Hundred & Ninety Years I delivered to Mr George
McQueen Collector of the Said Duties in the City of Edinbr [Edinburgh] an exact Duplicate
of the Foregoing Accompt duly examined and Compared which Contained my
oath that Notices or requisitions were left with the several Inhabitants or
at their Dwelling houses By Me Robert Maughan Surveyor

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