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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
24 Jun 1791 Provost Andrew Robertson Housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mr. Murdoch McKenzie Housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mrs Dr. [Doctor] Bitten Housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mr. Daniel Rose Minr. [Minister] Housemaid 1 1 £0.5.0 £0.0.6
4 1 3 £0.12.6 £0.1.3

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A Survey of the Rates & Duties on Female Servants Arisen in the Burgh of Dingwall
from 5th April 1791 to 5th April 1792. By David Ross Assistant Surveyor
DINGWALL

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4 Servants
4 @ £0.2.6 each is £0.10.0
1 Batchelor £0.2.6
10 P, [Per] Cent on £0.1.3
£0.13.9 Total

1 @ £0.5.0 £ 0.5.0
3 @ £0.2.6 £0.7.6
£0.12.6
10 pr [per] Cent £0.13.9

I David Ross Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the
foregoing Rates & Duties. I find they Amount in whole to Thirteen Shillings & nine pence
& that upon the twenty sixth day of Oct [october] curt. [current] I delivered to Baillie Alexander Kemp one of the
present Baillies of said Burgh to be returned to the Collector for said Burgh An exact
Duplicate of the Above Acct. [Account] duly examined & compared with the foregoing which contained my
oath that the above Acct. [Account] contained the number of servants returned to me & that were kept
or employed by the several masters or mistress's According to the best of my knowledge
or Information
David Ross Asst. [Assistant] Surveyor

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