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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
1792 Island of Bute £ £
13-- 1792 The Earl of Bute Mountstewart John Douglas Gardner 1 1 £3.0.0 £0.6.0
William McLeod Bannatyne Kaims Br [Bachelor] Malcolm McLeod
John Munro
Gardner 2 2 2 £5.0.0 £0.10.0
Total 3 2 2 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0

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Survey of the Island of Bute
MALE SERVANTS TAX
From 5 April 1792 to 5 April 1793 By Robert Aiken


Prooff
2 Bar Servts [Bachelor Servants] £1.5.0 each £2.10.0
2 Servants £1.5.0 each £2.10.0
1 [Servant] £3.0.0 each £3.0.0
[sub-total] £8.0.0
10 PrCt [PerCent] thereon £0.16.0
Total by Prooff £8.16.0

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon
careful Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they
amount to Eight pounds Sterling which with the ten Per Cent duty thereon
being sixteen shillings Sterling makes the whole amount to be Eight
pounds sixteen shillings Sterling and that upon the Thirtieth day of
November last I caused Deliver to Alexander May Esq Collector of said
Duties for said County at his office an exact Duplicate of and duly examined
and Compared with the foregoing account which contained my oath that Notifications
were delivered or left of the dates foresaid and that the Rates and
Duties charged in said account were just and true to the best of my skill
and knowledge and to the best of my belief no person liabile to be charged was
omitted

[signed]
Robert Aiken

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