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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 servants Five to seven servants Eight to ten servants Eleven or more servants Duty
21 Dec 1785 Docter R Wood James Balmain Riding Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.18.9
Mungo Murray Esqr Bar [Bachelor] John Smith Riding Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £1.17.6
James Murray Esqr Batr [Bachelor] Thomas McCara Riding Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £1.17.6
John Burt Donald Robertson Waiter 1 1 £0.18.9
John Campbell George Duncan Waiter 1 1 £0.18.9
23 Dec 1785 Thomas Marshall Adam Litster Waiter 1 1 £0.18.9
Docter John Stewart Batr [Bachelor] John Paterson Waiting Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £1.17.6
John Richardson Esqr John Stewart Waiting Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.18.9
8 3 8 £10.6.3

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A Survey of the Duties on Male Servants in The Town of
Perth from 5 of July 1785 to 5th April 1786 by Laurence Buchan Surveyor

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3 at £0.18.9 £2.16.3
8 at £0.18.9 £7.10.0 £10.6.3

Perth 7 March 1786 I Laurence Buchan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful Examination
of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole to Ten pound Six Shillings and three
pence Sterg [Sterling] and this day I delivered in to Mr Patrick Miller Colector of the Said duties for the Town aforesaid an
exact Duplicate of the Above Account duly examined and compared with the Foregoing bearing that the returns
were made by the different Masters agreable to the Notes left with them agreable to the dates annexed to their
respective names
Laurence Buchan Surveyor

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