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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
19 Jul 1793 David Sproat Esqr. of Portmary Batch. [Batchelor] Robert Jefferson 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0

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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX in the Burgh of Kirkcudbright
from the 5th day of April 1793 to the 5th day of April 1794 by David McMillan Surv. [Surveyor]

Proof 1 Batchr. [Batchelor] Male Servt. [Servant] at £1.5.0 above the duty £1.5.0
1 Male Servant at £1.5.0 is £1.5.0
£2.10.0 Male Servants Tax
Ten pr [per] Cent thereon is £0.5.0
£2.15.0 Grand Total

I David McMillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing several
Rates and Duties I find thee amount in whole to be Two Pounds fifteen shillings Sterling; And that upon
the ninth day of November one thousand seven hundred and ninety three years I delivered to
David McLellan Writer Collector of the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate
of the foregoing which contained my Oath that requisitions or notices were delivered to or left for the said
Person at his dwelling Place of the date annexed to his name to be charged with the
Duty certified to be due from him David McMillan

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