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Date	Masters & mistresses names & designations	Servants names	Quality of servants	Number of servants	Bachelor servants	One and two servants	Duty
	Dunbar
14 Aug 1787	Mrs Wedderburn	House Servt [Servant]	Ho [House] Servant	1		1	£1.5.0
	Mrs Fletcher Ballin shoe	Alexander Hemptie James Fleming	Ho. [House] Servant Gardner	2		2	£2.10.0
	Sir Alexander Douglass	Peter Macdonald John Bolt	Postilion Ho. [House] Servant	2		2	£2.10.0
	Doctor Robert Stewart	James Stewart	Groom	1		1	£1.5.0
	Benjamin Ellit	James Falconer	Waiter	1		1	£1.5.0
	Doctor John Willison not married	George Brown	Groom	1	1	1	£2.10.0
	Mr Michael Luke	James Stirling	Household	1		1	£1.5.0
	John Guthrie Esqr	William Gray William Elder	Postillion Household	2		2	£2.10.0
	William Gordon	James Mitchell Peter Campbell	Waiter Waiter	2		2	£2.10.0
	Henry Crawford Esqr	William Smith	Household	1		1	£1.5.0
	Capt [Captain] David Laird	Alexander Walker William Brown	Household Groom	2		2	£2.10.0
	Total			16	1	16	£21.5.0
	Proof
	15 Male Servants belonging to Married Persons for one year as above	at 25/- [£1.5.0]					18.13.0
	1 Male Servant unmarried Persons for one year as above	at 50/- [£2.10.0]					£2.10.0
							£21.5.0

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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants arisen in the Burgh of Dundee for one Year
commencing the 5th day of April 1787 ending the fifth 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 I find they amount in whole to Twenty One Pounds Five Shillings
Sterling and I do make Oath that notices were left with the Several Inhabitants before named
or at their Dwelling Houses of the respective dates aforesaid requesting then within Fourteen days
to give in a list of the Servants retained or Employed by them from the 5th day of April 1787 to
the 5 day of April 1788 and that the foregoing survey is made out from the lists returned to and
from the best Information also in I could procure of those who of the Male Servants neglected or refused
to return a list thereof in terms of the Nottices left with them aforesaid
Daniel Ross Surveyor

At Dundee the 31st day of October 1787
Sworn before me
John Guild Baillie
James Dick Collr. [Collector]

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