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Date	Masters & mistresses names & designations	Servants names	Quality of servants	Number of servants	One and two servants	Duty
11 Sep 1787	Capt. [Captain] John Butchart	Alexander Pyott	House Servant	1	1	£1.5.0
	Capt [Captain] John Fraser	John Wright William Cruden	H [House] Servant Groom	2	2	£2.10.0
	Doctor Thomas Stevenson	Alexander Gilbert		1	1	£1.5.0
	Collin Bruce	Lawrence Dunning		1	1	£1.5.0
	Coln [Colonel] William Lindsay	A Man Servant		1	1	£1.5.0
			Totall	6	6	£7.10.0

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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants arisen in the Burgh of Arbroath for one Year Commencing
the fifth day of April 1787 to the 5th Day of April 1788 by Daniel Ross Surveyor

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I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing duties
they amount in whole to Seven pound Ten Shillings Sterling and I do make Oath that Notices were
left with the Several Inhabitants before named or at there dwelling Houses of the respective dates aforesaid
Requiring them to give in a list of the Male Servants retained or employed by them from the fifth of
April 1787 to the 5th day of April 1788 and that the forgoing Survey is made out from the list returned
to me and from the best information I could procure of the Servants of those who neglected or refused
to return a list thereof in terms of the Notices left with them as aforesaid

At Dundee the 7th day of Nov. [November] 1787 Daniel Ross Surveyor
Sworn before John Guild Baillie John Colvill Collector

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