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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
30 Jul 1791 Mr. Alexander Taylor Vr [Vintner] Gilbert Smith Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
27 Aug 1791 Mrs. Crawford Not returned Servant 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Totall 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0

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Survey of the Male Servants Tax in the Borough of Queensferry
from the 5. April 1791 to the 5. April 1792. By James Watsone Surveyor

Proof
2. Men Servants @ £1.5.0. each................£2.10.0
To the 10 pct. [percent] thereof.................£0.5.0
Totall £2.15.0

I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon careful examination of the
forgoing Rates and Duties I find that they amount in whole to the sum of Two pounds fifteen
shillings Sterl. [Sterling]. And that upon the fourteenth day of October last I delivered to Mr. Robert Chapman
Collector for the forsaed Borough an exact Dupplicate of this Survey which contained my oath
that the several persons beforenamed were duly served with Requisitions and Notices
whereby they were to be charged with the several duties hereby certified to be due by them
Linlithgow 2.d November James Watsone Surveyor
1791

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