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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
1790 Elgin Brought Over 41 1-2 29 6 3 £7.17.6
Provost Brown 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Cruickshank 1 1 £0.2.6
Provost Stephen 1 1 £0.2.6
Miss Stewarts 1 1 £0.2.6
Baillie Jameson 1 1 £0.2.6
46 1-2 34 6 3 £8.10.0

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[Page] 120
Survey of FEMALE SERVANTS TAX. Continued

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1 Batchelors Servt [Servant] at 5/ each £0.5.0
2 Batchelors Servt [Servant] at 10/ [£0.10.0] each £1.0.0
34 Batchelors Servt [Servant] at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each £4.5.0
6 Batchelors Servt [Servant] at 5/ [£0.5.0] each £1.10.0
3 Batchelor Servt [Servant] at 10/ [£0.10.0] each £1.10.0
£8.10.0


I Patrick McDonald Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Careful examination of the forgoing rates
and duties on Female Servants I find they amount in whole to Eight pounds ten Shillings Sterlingand
that upon the fourth day of Jany [January] I delivered to James Duffus Collr [Collector] of said duties in the Town of Elgin
an exact duplicate of the above Acct [Account], examined and Compared with the forgoing which Contained my
Oath the the Several Inhabitants were Served with Requisitions and the Assessment Made Up from
the Lists and Answers in my possession. Patrick McDonald, Surveyor.
Sworn before me John Grant J.P. [Justice of Peace]

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