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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
Burgh of Kirkcudbright
David Sproat Esq. Bachr [Bachelor] Robert Jefferson Footman 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Capt. [Captain] John Parslow Kings own Regt [Regiment ] of Dragoons Robert Ironside 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
2 1 2 £3.15.0 £0.7.6
Proof
1 Male Servant at £1.5.0 above the duty £1.5.0
2 Male Servants at £1.5.0 each £2.10.0
£3.15.0 Duty
10 per Cent thereon is £0.7.6 Ten per cent
£4.2.6 Total

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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX in the Burgh of Kirkcudbright
from the 5th day of April 1791 to the 5th day of April 1792 by Anthony Macmillan Surveyor
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I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon careful Examination
of the foregoing several rates & duties I find they amount in whole to the sum of Four pounds,
two shillings & sixpence Sterling ; and that upon the third -- day of January one
thousand Seven hundred & ninety two years I delivered to Mr David McLellan Writer in
Kirkcudbt. [Kirkcudbright] Collector of the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate
of the foregoing which contained my oath that Requisitions or notices were delivd. [delivered]
to or left for the said several persons or at their dwelling Places of the dates
annexed to their resptve. [respective] names that were to be charged with the Sums so respively [respectively]
due from them -
Anthony Macmillan

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