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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
21 Sep 1787 John Richardson Esq Patrick Stobie House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Docter Robert Wood David Hardie House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
James Murray Batchelor John Monteath House Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Mungo Murray Batchelor Patrick Farquason House Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
22 Sep 1787 John Burt Donald Robertson Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
John Campbell Alexander Dun Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
Thomas Marshall Alexander Davie Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
James Christie Robert Robertson Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
25 Sep 1787 Robert Robertson Esq Duncan McPherson House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
26 Sep 1787 David Smith Esq James Dow House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Adam Cunningham William Hay House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
11 2 11 £16.5.0

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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants in the Town of
Perth from 5th April 1787 To 5th April 1788 by Laurence Buchan Surveyor

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2 at £1.5.0 £2.10
11 at £1.5.0 £13.15.0
£16.5.0

Perth 29th January 1788 I Laurence Buchan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify
That upon careful Examination of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties I find they amount
in Whole to Sixteen Pounds Five Shillings Str [Sterling] and that upon 24th Curr [Current] I deliverd
Mr Patrick Miller Collector of the said Duties for the Town aforesaid an Exact Duplicate of
the Above Account duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing this as being ageeable to
the returns made by the foresaid Masters
Laurence Buchan Surveyor

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