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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
13 [Aug] 1790 Mrs Johnston of Huttonhall 1 1 £1.5.0
Sir James Baird 2 2 £2.10.0
Mrs Fairbairn vint. [vintner] a Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
Dr [Doctor] Richard Sommers 1 1 £1.5.0
John Clerk junr [junior] vint. [vintner] a Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
6 6 £7.10.0

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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX in the Royalty of
Haddington from the 5 April 1790 to 5 April 1791 by William Johnstone Surv. [Surveyor]

Proof. 6 Servants at £1.5.0 each is £7.10.0

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull examination I find the foregoing duties amount
to the sum of Seven Pounds ten shillings Sterling And that upon the 17th Nov. [November] 1790 I delivered to John Carfrae
Collector of said duties an exact duplicate of this Accompt duely examined & Compared which contained my Oath that the
foregoing Inhabitants were duely served with Requisitions and that they were charged conform to their Returns or
according to my knowledge & belief that they were liable in said duties.
William Johnstone Surveyor

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