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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
15 -- 1790 John Richardson Esq David Hardin
John Forbes
house Servt. [servant]
Gardener
2 2 £2.10.0
Dr. [Doctor] James Wood David Swan Riding Servt [servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
James Richardson Duncan McNaughton Riding Servt. [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
James Murray Esq. Batch. [Bachelor] Daniel Diver Riding Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Robert Robertson Esq. Alexander Menzies Riding Servt. [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
John Burt Daniel Robertson Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
John Campbell William Campbell Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
Mrs Cathrine Marshall Alexander Mildrum Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
James Christie Robert Robertson Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
John Donuria John Bayne Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
11 1 11 £15.0.0

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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants arisen in the Town of
Perth from 5th April 1790 to 5th April 1791 by Laurence Buchan Surveyor

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12 at £1.5.0...£15.0.0

Perth 1 February 1791 I Laurence Buchan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull
Examination of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties I find they amount in Whole to Fifteen Pounds St [Sterling]
and the date I delivered to Mr Patrick Miller Collector for the Town aforesaid an Exact Duplicate of the Above Acc. [Account]
duly Examined and compared with the foregoing Notes being left with the several Masters or at their
dwelling houses So as they might make their returns
Laurence Buchan Surveyor

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