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Date Masters & mistresses names & designations Servants names Quality of servants Number of servants Bachelor servants One and two servants Three and four servants Five to seven servants Eight to ten servants Eleven or more servants Duty
1786
31 Aug 1786 Captain Maitland George Word Footman 1 1 £1.5.0
James Fairbairn M [Married] Alexander Thom Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
John Clark M [Married] David Gordon Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
3 3 £3.15.0

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MALE SERVANTS TAX In the Royalty of Haddington From 5th April 1786 to 5th April 1787 by Henry Watson Surveyor

Proof 3 Servants @ £1.5.0 £3.15.0

I Henry Watson Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull Examination of the forgoing several
Rates and Dutys I find They amount To the Sum of Three Pounds fifteen Shillings Sterling
And that upon the -- I delivered John Carfrae Collector of the said Duty's
for the Royalty of Haddington an exact duplicate of the forgoing Acct [Account] duly Examined and Compared
with the forgoing. And which contained my Oath that Requisitions were sent to the several forgoing
Inhabitants and that They were charged the Sums sett against their several Names according to the
Answers made to said Requisitions -
Henry Watson
Surveyor

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Note that in the Surveyor's summary the date upon which he delivered the information to the Collector of Duties has been left blank

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