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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 10% per 31 George III
6Jun1791 Provost John Ure 2 2 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
Mr John Ritchie 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
David Watt 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Peter Rankin 1 1 £0.5.0 £0.0.6
Amount 5 1 2 2 £1.0.0 £0.2.0

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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Female Servants in the
Burgh of Forfar for one year from 5th April 1791 to 5th April 1792 by Daniel Ross Surveyor
FORFAR

Proof 1 Female Servant @ £0.5.0...........£0.5.0
2 Female Servants @ £0.2.6..........£0.5.0
2 Female Servants @ £0.5.0.........£0.10.0
10 per cent amount to...................£0.2.0
Total.......................................... £1.2.0

I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforesaid do Certify that upon Careful
examination I find the foregoing duties amount to the Sum of One pound Two shillings
Stg [Sterling] And that upon the.....day of.....I Delivered to Mr John Barry
Collector of the said duties an exact duplicate of this Account which contained
my oath that the Above persons were served with requisitions of the Number
of Servants retained by them and that they are Charged agreeable to their
several returns to me or the best information I can procure.
At Dundee 18th Novr [November] 1791
Daniel Ross Survr. [Surveyor]

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