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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 Banff Brought over 87 4+2 53 24 4 £16.12.6
Mrs Charles Forbes 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Cruickshanks 1 1 £0.2.6
James Webster 1 1 £0.5.0
Miss Duff King Edd [Edward] 1 1 £0.2.6
Miss Scott 1 1 £0.2.6
Doctor Cave 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Eld 1 1 £0.2.6
Capt. [Captain] John Stewart 1 1 £0.2.6
John Clark 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Skeen Minr [Minister] 2 2 £0.10.0
John Keith Wright 1 1 £0.2.6
99 5 62 26 4 £18.10.0

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Survey Female Servants Tax continued

Proof
5 Bachelor Sevts [Servants] at £0.5.0 each is £1.5.0
2 Bachelor Sevrs [Servants] at £0.10.0 each is £1.0.0
62 Servants at £0.2.6 each is £7.15.0
26 Servants at £0.5.0 each is £6.10.0
4 Servants at £0.10.0 each is £2.0.0
£18.10.0

I Patrick MacDonald Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful Examination
of the foregoing rates & duties upon Female Servants, I find the amount in whole to the Sum
of eighteen Pound Ten Shillings Sterl [Sterling] & that upon the 20th of Decr [December] I transmitted James
Anderson Collector of Said Duties in the town of Banff an Exact duplicate of the above
Accot [Account] examined & Compared with the forgoing which contained my Oath that the
several Inhabitants were Served with the requisitions and the Assessment made up
from the Lists and Answers now in my possession
[Signed] Patrick MacDonald Survr [Surveyor]
Sworn before Me John Grant J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

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