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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
8 Jul 1797 Mrs Johnston Hutton 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6 £0.2.6
Robert Veitch Esqr. 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6 £0.2.6
Mrs Fairbairn Vintr. [Vintner] Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6 £0.2.6
Mrs Clark Vintr. [Vintner] Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6 £0.2.6
Colonel Maitland 2 2 2 £5.0.0 £0.10.0 £0.10.0
Dr. [Doctor] George Somner 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0 £0.5.0
7 3 7 £12.10.0 £1.5.0 £1.5.0

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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. in the Royalty of Haddington
from the 5 Aprile 1797 to the 5 Aprile 1798

Proof
3 Batchelors Servants @ £1.5.0 .....................................£3.15.0
7 Servants @ £1.5.0......................................................£8.15.0
.....................................................................................£12.10.0
10 pr. [per] Cent on £12.10.0........................................£1.5.0
addtl. [additional] 10 per Cent p [per] 36th Geoorge lll...£1.5.0
................................................................................... £15.0.0

I John Menzies Surveyor Do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing Rates
and duties I find that they amount on the whole to the Sum of Fifteen Pounds Sterling and that upon
the nineteenth Day of october I delivered to [ ] Collector of these duties an exact Duplicate
of this Account duly examined and Compared which Contained my oath that Requisitions were sent to
to the foregoing Inhabitants of the preceeding dates and that they were charged the sums annexed to
each of their names According to the answers they made said Requisitions or according to my
knowledge and belief that they are liable in these duties.
John Menzies Surveyor

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