E326/6/25/59

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 10% per 31 George III
Parishes Collected
Bower Parish 3 2 1 £0.12.6 £0.1.3
Canisbay Parish 5 1 4 £1.2.6 £0.2.3
Dunnet Parish 3 3 £0.7.6 £0.9.0
Halkirk Parish 4 1 3 £0.12.6 £0.1.3
Latheron Parish 5 3 2 £1.0.0 £0.2.0
Olrick Parish 4 2 2 £0.15.0 £0.1.6
Reay Parish 3 3 £0.7.6 £0.0.9
Thurso Parish 5 2 2 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Thurso Burgh 21 1 20 £2.15.0 £0.5.6
Watten Parish 3 3 £0.7.6 £0.0.9
Wick Burgh 9 1 6 2 £!.10.0 £0.5.0
Wick Parish 7 3 4 £1.7.6 £0.2.9
72 10 49 12 1 £12.2.6 £1.4.3
!0 per cent £1.4.3
Total £13.6.9

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1 Servant at £0.10.0 is £0.10.0
12 Servants at £0.5.0 each is £3.0.0
49 Servants at £0.2.6 each is £6.2.6
10 Servants at £0.5.0 each is £2.10.0
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72 £12.2.6
10per cent £ 1. 4.3
Total £13.6.9

I David Brodie Surveyor do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing [Rates]
and Duties I find they amount in whole to Thirteen Pounds six shillings and nine pence and that
upon the 1st October last I delivered to Mr John Davidson Collector of the said Duties an exact Duplicate
of the above Account duly examined and Compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath
that Requisitions were left with the several Masters and Mistresses on 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.
David Brodie Surveyor

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