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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
1795 Newlands Parish
Cornel Robert Montgomery Batchelor Magbiehill One Footman 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0 £0.5.0
Taxes Collected £0.10.0
1 Servant £1.5.0 £3.0.0
1 Batchelor £1.5.0
Total £2.10.0
10 per cent £0.5.0
10 per cent £0.5.0
Total £3.0.0

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A Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. in the Shire of Peebles from the 5 of April
1797 to the 5 of April 1798 by William Brunton Surveyor

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do Certify that upon examination of the foregoing Taxs I find they amount to the sum of £3
And on the Ninth day of June 1798 I delivered to Gideon Neidham Collector of said Taxs for the aforesaid a Just copy of the above
which Contained my Oath that the forgoing person that he was lyable to the Sum Sett against his Name
William Brunton

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