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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
Town of Forres
18 Jul 1791 Coll [Colonel] Blane Gardener & Foot [Footman] 2 2 2 £5.0.0 £0.10.0
A.C. Cumming Esq Foot [Footman] & Coach 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
[Total] 4 2 4 £7.10.0 £0.15.0

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A Survey of MALE SERVANTS TAX Arising in the Town of Forres from
the 5th April 1791 to the 5th April 1792
By Patrick MDonald Survr [Surveyor]

Prooff
2 Servants @£1.5.0 each for a year is £2.10.0
2 Batchelor Servants @ £2.10.0 each for a year is £5.0.0 Duty on Servt £7.10.0
£7.10.0 Ten per Cent £0.15.0
Ten Per Cent on £7.10.0 for a year is £0.15.0 £8.5.0
£8.5.0



I Patrick McDonald Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing rates and
Duties I find they Amount to Eight pounds five Shillings Sterl [Sterling] And that Upon the twelfth November
have sent Thomas Eddie Collector of Said duties for the Town of Forres an exact duplicate of the Above
Acct [Account] duly examin'd And compar'd which containd my Oath that the Several Inhabitants were served with
Requisitions, And the Assessment Made Up from the lists And Answers in my Possession
Patrick McDonald Survr [Surveyor]

Sworn before me at Iness [Inverness]
8th Nov [November] 1791
Thomas Young Bailie

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