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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
1797 Mrs. King Newmiln 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6 £0.2.6

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A Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. in the Burgh of Elgin for
one year preceeding 5 April 1797 by Robert Flyter Assistant Surveyor

Proof. 1 Servant @ £1.5.0 £1.5.0
Twenty per Cent thereon £0.5.0
Total £1.10.0

I Robert Flyter Assistant Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon carefull Exam:
:ination of the foregoing Duties I Find they amount to one pound Ten Shillings Sterling
that the preceeding Inhabitant was duly served with a Requisition and that she is
charged according to her Return to me, and that an Exact Duplicate of the foregoing
Report was transmitted to James Duffus Collector of said Duties By
Robert Flyter A.S. [Assistant Surveyor]

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