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Date	Masters & mistresses names & designations	Servants names	Quality of servants	Number of servants	One and two servants	Duty
26 Jul 1786	William Carrhurthers of Doormount	Adam Aitken	Footman	1	1	£1.5.0
	Capt [Captain] Walter Johnston	James Smith	Footman	1	1	£1.5.0
	John McVitty Vint [Vintner]	Lock neulock James Thomson	Waiter Waiter	2	2	£2.10.0
	Thomas Clint Vint [Vintner]	John Furgray	Waiter	1	1	£1.5.0
31 Jul 1786	Walter Ridle Esq	William Navison	Footman	1	1	£1.5.0
	Robert Ridle of Kemphall	Richard Bouie	Footman	1	1	£1.5.0
	Coll [Collector] Ramsay	James Mclelan	Footman	1	1	£1.5.0
	Comicar [Commissary] Goudie	Francis Gryice	Footman	1	1	£1.5.0
	Mrs Byron	James Charles	Footman	1	1	£1.5.0
	Capt [Captain] John Hamilton	James Paterson Alexander Halliday	Groom Footman	2	2	£2.10.0
4 Aug 1786	Mr Loathing of Nather wood	William Anderson Alexander Finlieson	Footman Gardner	2	2	£2.10.0
				14	14	£17.10.0

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Survey of the Male Servants Tax in the Burgh of
Dumfries from the 5th of April 1786 to 5th April 1787 by William Currie Surveyor
[Page] 19

Proof 14 Servants at £1.5.0 is £17.10.0

I William Currie Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing sevl [several]
rates and duties I find the Amount in whole to Seventeen pounds Ten shillings St [Sterling] and that upon the 22nd day
of Decembr [December] 1786 I delivered to Mr Francis Maxwell Collr [Collector] of the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an
exact duplicate of the foregoing which contained my Oath that notices were left with the sev [several] inhabitants
or at their dwelling houses of the dates annexed to their respective names that were to be charged with the sums
hereby certified to be due from them
William Currie
John Alves J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

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