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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
1798
31 Mar 1798 John Fordyce of Ayton for 6 Servants in place of 4 charged by his amended return making a difference of £2.5.0 £0.9.0
The Earl of Lauderdale for a Seventh servent at Lauder fort making a difference of £0.15.0 £0.3.0
£3.0.0 £0.12.0
Sum of the additional duties is £3.0.0
Sum of 20 p [per] Cent for 9 months p [per] 37 George 3d is £0.12.0
Total Sum is £3.12.0 Ster [Sterling]

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Additional Survey
of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. in Berwickshire from 5 April 1797
to the 5th April 1798 by William Johnston Survr. [Surveyor]

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull Examination I find the foregoing duties amount to the
Sum of Three Pounds twelve shill. [shillings] Ster. [Sterling] And that upon the 1st. day of April 1798 I delivered to David Renton Coll. [Collector] of these
duties an exact duplicate of this Acct. [Account] duely examined & Compared, And that the foregoing Inhabitants were charged the above
additional duties conform to their amended returns or the information received from the Tax Office at Edinburgh that
they were liable in said duties-
William Johnstone Survr. [Surveyor]

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