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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
1790 Cullen
8 Aug 1790 Lord Findlater 12 12 £36.0.0
Doctor Richardson 1 1 1 £2.10.0
13 1 1 12 £38.10.0

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A Survey of Male Servants Tax arising in the Town of Cullen
from 5 April 1790 to the 5 April 1791 By Patrick Mdonald Survy [Surveyor]

I Patrick McDonald Surveyor Aforsaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties on Female
Servants I find they Amount in whole to thirty Eight Pounds ten Shilling Sterling and that Upon the Seventh June
I delivered to Mungo Rannie Collr [Collector] of Said duties for the Town of Cullen an exact Duplicate of the Above Acct [Account] Examind
and Compared with the foregoing which containd My Oath that the Several Inhabitants were Served with
Requisitions And the assessment is Made up from the lists and answers now in my possession.
Patrick McDonald Surveyor
Sworn before me John Grant J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

Proof 12 Servants at 60/ each for a year is £36.0.0
1 Batchelor servant at 50/ £2.10.0
Total Amount £38.10.0

Transcriber's notes

It seems as if the surveyor made a mistake & described it as 'Female Servant Tax'

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