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Date Masters and mistresses names and designations Servants names Quality of servants Number of servants Bachelor servants One and two servants Three and four servants Five to seven servants Eight to ten servants Eleven or more servants Duty 20% per 37 George III
1797 Earl of Moray 1 1 £0.15.0 £0.3.0
Colonel Grant of Moy 4 4 £2.5.0 £0.9.0
James Brodie Esq 5 5 £3.15.0 £0.15.0
George Grant Esq Birdsyards 2 2 £0.15.0 £0.3.0
Sir Archibald Dunbar 3 3 £1.13.9 £0.6.9
Lady Gordon 2 2 £0.15.0 £0.3.0
James Robertson Esq 2 2 £0.15.0 £0.3.0
Earl of Fife Innes House 1 1 £0.15.0 £0.3.0
Honble [Honourable] Arthur Duff 2 2 £0.15.0 £0.3.0
Robert Grant Esq Elchies 2 2 £0.15.0 £0.3.0
Genl. [General] Grant Ballindalloch 1 1 £0.15.0 £0.3.0
25 10 7 8 £13.13.9 £2.14.9

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A Survey of the Additl. [Additional] MALE SERVANTS TAX. in the County of Elgin for
Nine Months preceeding 5 April 1797 by Robert Flyter Assistant Surveyor

Proof. 10 Servants @ £0.10.0 each £5.0.0
7 Servants @ £0.15.0 each £5.5.0
8 Servants @ £1.0.0 each £8.0.0
£18.5.0
Deduct one quarters duty £4.11.3
Duty for Nine months £13.13.9
Twenty P[Per] Cent thereon £2.14.9
Total £16.8.6

I Robert Flyter assistant Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon Carefull Exam:
:ination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole to the sum of Six:
:teen Pounds Eight Shillings and Six pence Sterling, that the preceeding Inhabitants
were duly served with Requisitions, that they are charged according to their Returns to
me, and that I transmitted to Mr Patrick Duff Collector of the said Duties an
Exact Duplicate of the foregoing Report Robert Flyter Asst. [Assistant] Surveyor

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