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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
1788 Parishes Collected
Speymouth 1 1 £1.5.0
St. Andrews 2 2 £2.10.0
Elgin 2 2 £2.10.0
Drainie 4 2 4 £7.10.0
Alvas 1 1 £1.5.0
Forres 1 1 £1.5.0
Dyke 7 7 £10.10.0
Rafford 4 4 £5.0.0
Knockando 2 2 2 £5.0.0
Rothes 3 3 3 £8.5.0
Duffas 1 1 £1.5.0
Inveraven 4 4 4 £11.0.0
32 11 18 14 £57.5.0

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Survey MALE SERVANTS TAX. Continued
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11 Batchlers Servants @ £1.5.0 each Above duty is £13.15.0
18 Batchlers Servants @ £1.5.0 each is £22.10.0
14 Servants at £1.10.0 each is £21.0.0
£57.5.0

I Patrick McDonald Surveyor afforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the
foregoing rates and duties on Male Servants within the County of Elgin I find they amount in whole
to Fifty Seven Pounds five Shillings Sterling and that I delivered to John Duff collector of said
duties for said County an exact duplicate of the above account duly examined and compared
which contained my Oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were served with requisitions and that
the assessments are made up from the lists, and answers now in my possession.
Patrick McDonald Survyr [Surveyor]
Sworn befor me at Forres 2 Jany [January] 1789

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