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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 10% per 31 George III
6th Jul 1791 Sir Alexander Douglas 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Doctor Willison 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Mr Gordon 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Mr Michael Luke 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Mrs Fletcher 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
James Strachan 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
George Blair Esq 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Lady Ramsay 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
James Stewart 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
John Rankin Esq 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
10 1 10 £13.15.0 £1.7.6

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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants in the Burgh of Dundee
for one Year from the 5th April 1791 to 5th April 1792 by Daniel Ross Surveyor
[Page] 25

Proof
9 Servants for married persons at £1.5.0 each £11.5.0
1 Servant for a Batchelor at £2.10.0 £2.10.0
£13.15.0
10per cent amount to £1.7.6 £1.7.6
£15.2.6 £15.2.6

I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination
I find the Foregoing duties Amount to the Sum of Fifteen pounds Two Shillings
and Sixzpence Str. [Sterling] and that upon the -- day of -- I Delivered to Mr James
Dick Collector of the Said duties for the Burgh of Dundee an exact duplicate of this
account which contained my oath the preceeding Inhabitants were served with requisitions of
the dates aforesaid desiring them to give in a list of the Male Servants retained by each of them
and that they are Chd [Charged] Conformable to their Returns to me or the Best information I
could procure
At Dundee 18th Nov [November] 1791 Daniel Ross Survr. [Surveyor].

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