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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
04 Aug 1789 Sir Alexander Douglas 1 1 £1.5.0
Lady Ramsay 1 1 £1.5.0
John Rankin Esqr. 1 1 £1.5.0
Dr. [Doctor] John Willison B [Bachelor] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Mrs. Fletcher 1 1 £1.5.0
Michale Luke Esqr. 1 1 £1.5.0
William Gordon 2 2 £2.10.0
Dr. [Doctor] Robert Stewart 1 1 £1.5.0
Capt. [Captain] David Laird 3 3 £4.10.0
Mr. James Strachon 1 1 £1.5.0
Capt. [Captain] James Clayhills 1 1 £1.5.0
14 1 11 3 £19.10.0

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A Survey of the duties on Male Servants in the Burgh of Dundee
for one year from the 5th. of April 1789 to the 5th. of April 1790 by
Daniel Ross Surveyor.
[Page] 33

Proof
10 Male Servants for married Persons -- at 25/- [£1.5.0] -- £12.10.0
3 Male Servants for married Persons -- at 30/- [£1.10.0] -- £4.10.0
1 Male Servant for a Batchlor -- at 50/- [£2.10.0] -- £2.10.0
£19.10.0
I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Scertify that upon careful
examination I find the foregoing duties amount to ninteen pounds ten
Shillings Sterling and that upon the 22nd day of Jany. [January] 1790 I delivered
to James Dick Collr. [Collector] of the said duties for the Burgh aforsaid an exact
duplicate of this Accot. [Account] which contained my Oath that the preceding
inhabitants were duly Served with notifications of the dates aforsaid
and that they are charged conformably to the best information
I could procure
At Dundee 22nd Jany. [January] 1790 Daniel Ross Surveyor

Proof 1 Batchelor Servant £1.5.0 over and above the duty
11 Servants at £1.5.0 £13.15.0
3 Servants at £1.10.0 £4.10.0
£19.10.0 Totall

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