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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	Duty	10% per 31 George III
1791	County of Elgin
12 Jul 1791	Alexander Innes Esq	John Ritchie	Driver	1		1		£1.5.0	£0.2.6
	John Brander Esq	William Young &c	Driver & house Sert [Servant]	2		2		£2.10.0	£0.5.0
	Sir William Gordon	Anton Burnet &c	Butler &c	3	3		3	£8.5.0	£0.16.6
	Lady Gordon	James Donaldson &c	Postilion	2		2		£2.10.0	£0.5.0
	Sir Alexander Dunbar			1		1		£1.5.0	£0.2.6
	P. Rose Watson	James Rose	Driver	1		1		£1.5.0	£0.2.6
	Robert Urquhart Esq	John Jameson	footman	1	1	1		£2.10.0	£0.5.0
	Coll [Colonel] Grant Moy	Donald Grant &c	footmen	4			4	£6.0.0	£0.12.0
	James Brodie Esq	John Anderson &c	Butler	2		2		£2.10.0	£0.5.0
	Major Duff Blervie	Alexander Dunbar &c	Butler &c	2		2		£2.10.0	£0.5.0
	Robert Grant Elchies	James Grant &c		2	2	2		£5.0.0	£0.10.0
	Honble. [Honourable] Arthur Duff			2	2	2		£5.0.0	£0.10.0
	Honble. [Honourable] George Duff	Cherry	Butler	1		1		£1.5.0	£0.2.6
	General Grant	Christy &c &c		4	4		4	£11.0.0	£1.2.0
				28	12	17	11	£52.15.0	£5.5.6
	Mrs. Innes Dunkinty			1		1		£1.5.0	£0.2.6
				29	12	18	11	£54.0.0	£5.8.0

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A Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. Arising in the County of Elgin
from the 5th April 1791 to the 5th April 1792 By Patrick Mdonald Suryr [Surveyor]

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3 Batchelors Servts [Servants] @ £2.15.0 each for a year is £8.5.0
1 Batchelors Servts [Servants] @ £2.10.0 for a year £2.10.0
2 Batchelors Servts [Servants] @ £2.10.0 each for a year is £5.0.0
2 Batchelors Servts [Servants] @ £2.10.0 each for a year is £5.0.0
4 Batchelors Servts [Servants] @ £2.15.0 each for a year is £11.0.0
12 Batchelors Servts [Servants] @ £1.5.0 each for a year is £15.0.0
4 Batchelors Servts [Servants] @ £1.10.0 each for a year is £6.0.0
.................................................................................... £52.15.0
Ten Per Cent on £52.15.0 for a year is................................. £5.5.6
...............................................................Total Amount is £58.0.6
Omited above Mrs. Innes Dunkinty -- 1 -- 1 -- .....................£1.5.0
Ten Per Cent on £1.5.0 is................................................... £0.2.6
...................................................................Total Amount £59.8.0

duty on Servts [Servants] is £52.15.0
Ten P [Per] Cent on duty is ......£5.5.6
.......................................... £58.0.6
.............................................£1.7.6
...........................................£59.8.0

I Patrick Mdonald Surveyor Aforsaid do hereby Certify that Upon carful examination of the forgoing
Rates and duties I find they Amount in whole to fifty nine Pound Eight Shillings Sterling and
that Upon 12th Nov [November] I deliverd to Provost John Duff Collector of Said duties or the County of
Elgin an exact duplicate of the Above Acctt [Account] duly examind and compaird which containd my Oath
that the Several Inhabitants were duly Served with Requisitions And the Assessment Made up
from the lists And Answers in my Possession [Signed] Patrick MDonald Suryr [Surveyor]
Sworn before me at Invess [Inverness]
8th Nov [November] 1791 Thomas Young Bailie

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Anton should be Ontong. a servant brought over from the Solomon Islands.

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