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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
Golspey Parish
11 Aug 1786 Rt. Hon: [ Right Honourable] Countess of Sutherland William Hutton Gardener 1 1 £1.5.0
Col: [Colonel] James Sutherld [Sutherland] of Uppat John Mathieson Groom [etc] 2 1 £1.5.0
2 2 £2.10.0
Loth Parish
10 Aug 1786 Mr Dugald Gilchrist William Mcpherson Groom 3 1 1 £2.10.0
Capt. [Captain] Gordon of Carrol Francis Wright Groom 4 1 £1.5.0
2 1 2 £3.15.0
Rogart Parish
10 Aug 1786 Lieut. Col. [Lieutenant Colonel] John Sutherld [ Sutherland] at Kinnauld Andrew Allan Groom 5 1 £1.5.0
Farr Parish
25 Jul 1786 Rt. Hon: [ Right Honourable] Lord Reay Body Servant 6 1 1 £2.10.0
Reay Parish
26 Jul 1786 Capt. [ Captain] George Mckay of Bighouse John McDonald Groom 7 1 £1.5.0
Parishes Collected
Golspey Parish 2 2 £2.10.0
Loth Parish 2 1 2 £3.15.0
Rogart Parish 1 1 £1.5.0
Farr Parish 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Reay Parish 1 1 £1.5.0
7 2 7 Total £11.5.0

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A Survey for the Shire of Sutherland of the
MALE-SERVANTS TAX.
from 5 April 1785 to 5 April 1786 By Andrew Liddell Surveyor [Page] 197

Proof
7 Servants at £1.5.0 each £8.15.0
2 Servants Batchelor £1.5.0 each £2.10.0
£11.5.0 Total

I Andrew Liddell Surveyor Do hereby Certify That the foregoing Duties do amount in whole to Eleven Pounds Five Shilling
and That on the 11th October 1786 I delivered to Mr Dugald Gilchrist Collector of Cess for Sutherland Shire, an exact Duplicate
of the foregoing Account, which contained my Oath That notices were left with the several Masters & Mistresses or at their
[dwelling] Houses, of the respective Dates aforesaid: And That, according to the best of my Belief or Judgment, the several Rates therein
[charged] are just, & No Person in my District liable to be charged has been omitted to be charged
Andrew Liddell Surveyor

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