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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
3 Oct 1787 John McGregor Patrick McGregor Postilion 1 1 £1.5.0
Robert Gillies unmarried James More waiter 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Total 2 1 2 £3.15.0

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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants arisen in the Burgh of Breckine for One Year
commencing the 5th of April 1787 and ending the 5th day of April 1788 by Daniel Ross Surveyor

I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties
they amount in whole to three pounds fifteen Shillings Sterling, and I do make Oath that Nottices were left
with the Several Inhabitants before named or at there Dwelling Houses of the respective dates aforesaid requesting them
to give in a list of the Servants retained or employed by them from the 5th of April 1787 to the 5th of April 1788 and that the
foregoing Survey is made out from the list returned to me, & from the best information I could procure of the Male
Servants of those who neglected or refused to return a list thereof in terms of the Nottices left with them as aforesaid

Daniel Ross Surveyor
Alexander Vallentyne Coll. [Collector]

At Dundee the 7th day of Nov. [November] 1787
Sworn before John Guild Baillie

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