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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
	Dunbar
20 Sep 1787	Col [Colonel] Steele Bellhaven	David McQuat	House servt [servant]	1	1		£1.5.0
	John Lorimer vintr [vintner]		Waiter	1	1		£1.5.0
	Robert Fall Esqr		three	3		3	£4.10.0
	Robert Mellville Esqr	John Salton	House servt [servant]	1	1		£1.5.0
				6	3	3	£8.5.0

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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX in the Royalty of
Dunbar for the year ending 5 April 1788 by William Johnstone Surveyor
[Page] 25

Proof
3 Servants at £1.5.0 is £3.15.0
3 Servants at £1.10.0 is £4.10.0
£8.5.0

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the above Duties I find that they
amount to the sum of Eight pounds five shillings Sterling And that upon the sixth day of November 1787 I delivered to John Tait
Collector of said duties in the Royalty of Dunbar an exact Duplicate of this Accompt duly examined & Compared And which contained my
Oath that requisitions of the above date were sent to the foregoing Inhabitants or left at their Houses and that they were charged the sums
sett against their names according to the answers they made to said Requisitions
William Johnstone Surveyor

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