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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
24 Jun 1791 Capt. [Captain] James Dalrymple Andrew Millar House Servt.[Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Charles Dalrymple Esq. David Gibson
Robert Porteous
Robert Clawson
Butler
Footman
Postillion
3 3 £4.10.0 £0.9.0
4 1 1 3 £7.0.0 £0.14.0

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Survey of the Male Servants Tax in the Royalty of North Berwick
from the 5 April 1791 to 5 April 1792. by William Johnstone Surveyor.

Proof 1 Bach. [Batchelor's] Servant at £1.5.0 is £1.5.0
1 Servant at £1.5.0 is £1.5.0
3 Servents at £1.10.0 is £4.10.0
£7.0.0
and 10 p [per] Cent on £7.0.0 is £0.14.0
amounting in all to £7.14.0 Ster. [Sterling].

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull examination I find the foregoing duties amount to
the sum of Seven Pounds fourteen Shillings Ster. [Sterling] And that upon the 26 October 1791 I delivered to John Kirk Collector of said
duties an exact duplicate of this Accompt duely examined & compared which contained my Oath that the foregoing In-
-habitants were duely served with Requisitions And that they were charged according to their several Returns According
to my knowledge & belief that they were liable in said duties.
William Johnstone Surveyor.

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