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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
29 July 1791 Lady Carnegie 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Provost Alexander Christie 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
William Ford 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Robert Graham Esq. 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
John Keith Esq. 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Robert Stephen Esq. 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Major Turnbull 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Alexander Smith Esq. 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Mrs Renny Borrowfield 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Dr. [Doctor] John Moodie 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Mrs Driver 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Amount 12 12 £15.0.0 £1.10.0

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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants in the Burgh of Montrose
for one Year from 5th April 1791 to 5th April 1792 by Daniel Ross, Surveyor

Proof 12 servants for Married persons at £1.5.0 each £15.0.0
10 Per Cents amount to ...................................... £1.10.0
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£16.10.0


I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination
I find the foregoing duties amount to the Sum of Sixteen Pounds & Ten shillings
Sterling and that upon the -- day of -- I Delivered to Mr John Strachan
Collector of the Said duties for the Burgh of Montrose an exact duplicate of this
account which contained my Oath that the foregoing Persons were served with
Requisitions of the above date and that they are Chd. [Charged] agreeable to their several returns
to me or the best information I could procure
At Dundee 18th Novr [November] 1791 ---- Daniel Ross Surv. [Surveyor]

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