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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
24 Jul 1797 David Sproat Esq. of Portmary Batch. [Bachelor] Robert Jefferson Footman 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0 £0.5.0
Proof 1 Batchelors Male servant at £1.5.0 above the Duty £1.5.0
1 Male servant at £1.5.0 £1.5.0
£2.10.0
10 pr [per] Cent thereon is £0.5.0
10 pr [per] Cent thereon is £0.5.0
£3.0.0

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Survey of the MALE-SERVANTS TAX. in the Burgh of Kirkcud-
-bright from the 5th day of April 1797 to the 5th day of April 1798. By David Mcmillan Survry. [Surveyor]

I David Mcmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing Several
Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole to the Sum of Three pounds Sterling: and that upon the
[ ] day of January one thousand Seven hundred & ninety eight years I delivered to Mr David
McLellan Writer Kirkcudbright Collr. [Collector] of the said Duties for the burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate
of the foregoing which contained my Oath that Reqns. [Requisitions] or Notices were delivered to or left for the Several
foregoing Persons of the dates foresaid and the Charges made out from the returns or my best Information
David Mcmillan Surveyor

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