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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
7 Aug 1790 Anstruther Waster
William Thomson Elizabeth Matheson housemaid 1 1 £0.5.0
Mr. James Forrester Minister 2 Mary Racker house maid 1 1 £0.2.6
2 1 1 £0.7.6

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Anstruther Wester
Female Servants Tax
Survey in the Burgh of Anstruther waster
from the 5th April 1789 to 5th April 1790 by Charles Robb Surveyor

Proof
1 Servant & Bachelor at £0.5.0 is £0.5.0
1 Servant at £0.2.6 is £0.2.6
£0.7.6

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaed do hereby certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing duties I find
they Amount in whole to Seven Shillings and Six pence Sterling and that upon the Twenty fourth day of November
I delivered to Andrew Meldrum Collector of the saed duties for the Burgh aforesaed an Exact duplicate of
the above Account duly Examined and compared with the foregoing which Contained my Oath that Notices were
left with the Several parsons befor named or at their dwelling houses of the dates anexed to their respective
names requiring them within fourteen days to give in alist of their Carriage or Saddle horses(Retained or Employed
by them from the 5th day of April 1789 to the 5th day of April 1790 and that the said Account or Survey is made Out from
the list returned by me and from the Best Information I could procure of the Carriage or Saddle horses (of those
whose lists or deficiant Neglected or refused to give in alist thereof in termes of the Nottices left with them
as aforesaed
Charles Robb Surveyor

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