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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
Sep 1797
Capt. [Captain] George Birrel Servant 1 1 £1.5.0. £0.2.6. £0.2.6.
Provost Birrel Servant 1 1 £1.5.0. £0.2.6. £0.2.6.
Provost Walter Fergus Servant 2 2 £2.10.0. £0.5.0. £0.5.0.
Thomas Dawson Vintner Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0. £0.2.6. £0.2.6.
5 5 £6.5.0. £0.12.6. £0.12.6.

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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. in the Royalty of Kirkcaldy
from 5. April 1797 to 5. April 1798. James Millar Surveyor

Proof 5 Servants at £1.5.0. £6.5.0.
10 per Cent £0.12.6.
10 per cent addl. [additional] £0.12.6.
£7.10.0.

I James Millar Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon careful Examination of the foregoing
rates and duties I find they amount to the Sum of Seven pounds ten Shillings
Sterg [Sterling] And that upon the [ ] Day of Janr. [January] 1798 I delivered to Mr William Drysdale an exact duplicate of
the above Account which contained my Oath that notices were left with the several inhabitants that they
were charged with the said Duties according to their own Returns or the best information
James Millar Surveyor

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