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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 [Jan] 1790 | Robert Backie of Tankerness | Alexander Laurence | Footman | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | |||||
| Robert Laing Provost | David Heddle | Footman | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
| John Tweed of Westness | John Loggie | Footman | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
| Total | 3 | 3 | £3.15.0 |
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[page 85]Survey Male Servants Tax within the Town of Kirkwall
from 5th April 1789 to 5th April 1790 by Alexander Fraser Surveyor
I Alexander Fraser Surveyor aforesaid do make oath that the amount of the Male Servants Tax within the Town
of Kirkwall amounts to Three pounds and fifteen shillings and that I delivered to John Heddle Town Clerk of Kirkwall
and Collector of duties upon the eleventh February Seventeen hundred and Ninety an exact duplicate of the above
in Kirkwall 11 February 1790
from before John Weir JP [Justice of the Peace]
Alexander Fraser Surveyor
[Page] 85
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