E326/5/10/61

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
Burgh of Irvine
1787
3 -- 1787 The Honble [Honourable] Patrick Boyle 2 2 £2.10.0
5 -- 1787 Capt [Captain] Morries a Batchelor 1 1 1 £2.10.0
6 -- 1787 Bailie James Shaw Robert Bankhead Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
7 -- 1787 Capt [Captain] John Peebles 1 1 £1.5.0
Total 5 1 5 £7.10.0

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MALE SERVANTS TAX.
From 5th April 1787 to 5th April 1788 By Robert Aiken Surveyor

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I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify That upon careful
Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find the amount in whole
to Seven pounds ten shillings Sterling And that upon the twenty third day of
January current I delivered to Mr Alexander McMillan Collector of said Duties for said
Burgh An Exact duplicate of and duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing
Account which contained my Oath that Notifications were delivered or left of the
dates foresaid And that the Rates charged in said Account were just and true to
the best of my skill and knowledge And to the best of my belief, no person liable to
be charged was omitted
Robert Aiken Surveyor

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