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Date	Masters & mistresses names & designations	Servants names	Quality of servants	Number of servants	One and two servants	Three and four servants	Duty
17 Oct 1785	Dunbar
Requ [Requisition] 21 Sep 1785	Robert Fall Esq M [Married]	Andrew Paterson	Gardiner	1		1	£1.2.6
		John Burns	Postilion	1		1	£1.2.6
		William Wright	House Sert [Servant]	1		1	£1.2.6
	Doctor Hamilton M [Married]	John Paterson	Postilion	1	1		£0.18.9
	John Lorimer Vintner M [Married]	Alexander Bruce	Waiter	1	1		£0.18.9
				5	2	3	£5.5.0

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MALE SERVANTS TAX In the Royalty of the Brugh of Dunbar from 5 July 1785 to 5 April 1786

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2 Male Servants at £1.5.0 p [per] Annum is £0.18.9 for ¾ of a Year £1.17.6
3 Male Servants at £1.10.0 p [per] Annum is £1.2.6 for¾ of a Year £3.7.6
£5.5.0

I William Hogg Surveyor of Taxes Do Hereby Certify that upon Carefull Examination of the Foregoing
Account of Rates & Dutys Arrising on Male Servants in the Brugh of Dunbar I find the Amount to
be Five Pounds Five Shillings Sterling And that upon the 1st day of December 1785 I delivered to Mr John
Tait Collector of said Dutys an Exact Duplicate of the Foregoing duly Examined & Compared
& which Contained my Oath that the Foregoing Inhabitants were served with Requisition on the date
aforesaid And that the Assessment was made from their Returns & now in my Possession
William Hogg Surveyr [Surveyor]

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