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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
4 Jul 1790 Mr Alexander Taylor Vint. [Vintner] Gilbert Smith Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
7 Jul 1790 Mrs Crawford Andrew Moir Chaise Driver 1 1 £1.5.0
Totall 2 2 £2.10.0

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Survey of the Male Servants Tax in the Borough of
Queensferry from the 5th April 1790 to the 5th April 1791. By James Watsone Surveyor

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2 Men Servants @ £1.5.0 each.......................................£2.10.0

I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon careful examination of the
forgoing Rates and Duties I find that they amount in whole to the Sum of Two pounds ten
Shillings Ster. [Sterling] And that upon the Eighteenth day of November current I delivered to Mr.
Robert Chapman Collector of the said Borough an exact Duplicate of this Survey which
contained my oath that the several persons beforenamed were duly served with Requisitions
and Notices whereby they were to be charged with the several Duties hereby Certified to be
due by them.
James Watsone Surveyor
Linlithgow 30th Novemr [November]
1790

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