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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Children under 14 Servants names Number of servants Bachelor servants One servant Two servants Three or more servants Duty 10% per 31 George III
1791 Mr David Ross Clerk 1 housemaid 1 1 1 £0.5.0 £0.0.6
Mr Alexander Manson 3 1 housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mr Benjamin Ross 1 housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Baillie George Miller 1 housemaid 1 1 £0.5.0 £0.0.6
Mr. Alexander Sutton Sherriff Clerk 1 housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mr William Gillchrist plasterer 1 housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Dr. [Doctor] Alexander Straith 1 housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mrs Kenneth Sutherland 1 housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Hugh MacFarquhar 1 housemaid 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
9 1 8 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Proof
9 Servts [ Servants]
9 @ 2/6 [£0.2.6] each is £1.2.6
1 Bachelor @ £0.2.6
£1.5.0
10 Pr Ct [Per Cent] on Bachelor @ £0.2.6
£1.7.6 Total £1.7.6

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TAIN
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A Survey of the Rates of Duties on Female Servants, Arisen in the Burgh of Tain from
5th Aprile 1791 to 5th Aprile 1792. By Hugh MacFarquhar Surveyor

I Hugh MacFarquhar Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify, that upon carefull examination
of the foregoing Rates & Duties, I find they Amount in Whole to One pound seven shillings
& sixpence, and that upon the thirty first day of Octr.[October] last I delivered to Mr. Charles Manson,
present Collector of said Duties for the Burgh aforesaid, an exact Duplicate of the Above
above Acct. [Account] containd the number of Servants returnd to me & that were kept or employed
by the different Masters or Mistress's According to the best of my knowledge or information.
Tain 3d Novr 1791
Hugh McFarquhar Surveyor

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