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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
Dundee
-- Jun 1788 John Rankine Esqr 1 1 £1.5.0
William Gordon 2 2 £2.10.0
Henry Crauford Esqr 1 1 £1.5.0
Mrs Fletcher 2 2 £2.10.0
Mr Michael Luke 1 1 £1.5.0
Capt [Captain] David Laird 2 2 £2.10.0
Sir Alexander Douglas 2 2 £2.10.0
Capt [Captain] Alexander Read 2 2 £2.10.0
Dr [Doctor] Robert Stewart 1 1 £1.5.0
Dr [Doctor] John Willison 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Thomas Read Esqr 1 1 £1.5.0
16 1 16 £21.5.0

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Survey of the Rates & Duties on MALE SERVANTS TAX arisen in the Burgh
of Dundee Ending 5th April 1789 by Daniel Ross Surveyor
[Page] 31

Proof 15 Servants @£1.5.0 Each is £18.15.0
1 Servant Batchelor @ £2.10.0 Each is £2.10.0
£21.5.0

I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforesd. [aforesaid] do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of
the foregoing rates & Duties I find they amount to Twenty One Pounds Five
Shillings Ster [Sterling] and that upon the 10 Nov [November] 1788 I delivered to Mr James Dick Collr [Collector]
for the Burgh foresaid an exact duplicate of the above duly examined and compared
to the foregoing which contd [contained] my oath that requisitions were left and that the
above is the return of the whole foregoing Inhabitants; or where that failled from
the best information I could procure
Daniel Ross Sury [Surveyor]

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