E326/6/24/95

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
15 Jul 1790 Rutherglen Town
Mrs Gray Janet Gray 1 1 £0.2.6
David Scott Writer 5 Sarah McLain
Janet Scott housemaids
Robert Park Esqr 4 Jean Park
Effie Park housemaids
George White Esqr of Bankhead 5 Agnes Riddle housemaid
John Paterson Esqr of Springfield 5 Janet Peters housemaid
Total of Rutherglen Town 19 1 1 £0.2.6

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A Survey of the Duties on Female Servants in the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen Keept from the 5th of April 1789 to the 5th April 1790 surveyed on the 15th July 1790 By William Mure Surveyor
FEMALE SERVANTS TAX.
RUTHERGLEN 48 57

I William Mure Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing several Rates and Duties
I find they amount in Whole to Two Shillings & Six Pence Sterling and that upon the I Delivered to
Mr John Dykes Collector of the said Duties for the Burgh Aforesaid an Exact Duplicat of the above account, Duly Examined
& Compared with the foregoing, which Contained my Oath, that Requisitions were left with the Several inhabitants or at their
Dwelling houses of the dates annexed to their respective names & that they were to be Charged with the Sums hereby Certified
to be due from them WillIam Mure Surveyor

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