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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
23 Sep 1797 The Revd. [Reverend] Doctor Robert Dalgliesh Robert Mowbray Servant 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6 £0.2.6

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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. in the Borough of Queensferry
from the 5th April 1797. to the 5th April 1798. James Watsone Surveyor

Proof
1. Servant...@ is................................. £1.5.0..
to the 1st 10P Ct [Per Cent] thereon... £0.2.6
to the 2nd 10P Ct [Per Cent] thereon...£0.2.6
Totall £1.10.0

I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that the above Doctor Robert Dalgliesh
was duly Served with a Requisition and Notice whereby he was to be charged with the Duty of
the above Male Servant And that upon the Twenty fourth day of November last I delivered to
Mr. Robert Murray Collector for the foresaid Borough of Queensferry an Exact Dupplicate
of this Survey which contained my oath to the above effect
James Watsone Surveyer
Linlithgow 5th Decemr [December]
1797

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