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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 Five to seven Eight to ten Eleven or more Duty 10% per 31 George III 10% per 36 George III
22 Sep 1797 Cong. [Canongate] Brot [Brought] Forward 54 4 28 7 7 . 12 £98.15.0 £9.17.6
Lady Francis Chartirs 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
John Leslie WS [Writer to the Signet] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6.
Miss Hutton 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Abstract Canongate 57 4 31 7 7 . 12 £102.10.0 £10.5.0. £10.5.0
West Kirk 220 39 155 33 32 . . £348.0.0 £34.16.0 £34.16.0
South Leith 40 3 32 8 . . . £53.15.0 £5.11.6 £5.11.6
North Leith 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6. £0.2.6
318 46 219 48 39 . 12 £507.10.0 £50.15.0 £50.15.0
9 Aug 1797 Capt [Captain] Park Nicholsons Street 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0. £0.5.0.
10 Feb 1798 Mr. Tullerton of Carstairs Nicholson Street 3 3 £4.10.0 £0.9.0. £0.9.0
31st Aug 1797 Mr Carmichael of Eastend, Merchiston 1 1 £1.5.0. £0.2.6 £0.2.6
Total 324 46 222 51 39 . 12 £515.15.0 £51.11.6 £51.11.6
Surcharge
6th March 1798 John Candell Drava, Leith 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0 £0.5.0

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46 Batchelors Servants @ 25/ [£1.5.0] each £57.10.0. £5.15.0
222 Servants @ 25/. [£1.5.0] £277.10.0 £27.15.0
51 [Servants] @ 30/. [£1.10.0] £76.10.0 £7.13.0
39 [Servants] @ 35/. [£1.15.0] £68.5.0 £6.16.6
12 [Servants] @ 60/. [£3.0.0] £36.0.0 £3.12.0
[Total] £575.15.0 £ 57.11.6
£515.15.0 at the Rate of 20 per Cent -- £103.3.0
[Total] £618.18.0

I John Scott Ass [Assistant] Surveyor aforesaid do herby certify that upon Careful examination of the foregoing
Rates and Duties I find they amount in Whole to the sum of Six hundred and twenty one pounds & eighteen
shillings Sterling; and that on the 7th Day of March currt. [current] I delivered into the Office of George Cranston Esq.
Collector of said Duties an exact Duplicate of this Account which contained my Oath that the requisitions
were duly left with the preceding inhabitants or other respected dwelling houses and that this
account is made up from their several returns to me or from the best information I could pro-
cure when they failed to make such Returns - John Scott.

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