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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
Sep 1790 Elgin
Andrew Peary Vintner Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
Mrs. King New Miln Butler 1 1 £1.5.0
William Brodie Esqr Footman 1 1 1 £2.10.0
James Sutherland Vintner Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
[Totals] 4 1 4 £6.5.0

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A Survey of Male Servants Tax Arising in the Town of Elgin
from the 5th April 1790 to the 5th April 1791 by Pat Mcdonald Survyr [Surveyor]

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1 Batchlors Servt [Servant] @ £2.10.0
3 Servts [Servants] @ £1.5.0 each £3.15.0
£6.5.0

I Pat Mcdonald Surveyor Aforsaid do hereby Certify that upon Careful examination of the forgoing rates and duties on
Male Servants I find they Amount in whole to Six pound five Shillings Sterl [Sterling] and that Upon the fourth Jany [January]
I delivered to James Duffus Collr [Collector] of said duties in the Town of Elgin an exact duplicate of the above Acct [Account]
duly examined and Compared which Contain'd [Contained] my Oath that the Several Inhabitants were Served with
Requisitions and the assessment Made up from the lists and Answers Now in My Possession.
Pat McDonald Surveyor
Sworn before me John Grant J.P. [Justice of the Peace]
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