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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
25 Nov 1789 Captain James Sutherland Burray James Mackay Footman 1 1 1 £2.10.0
16 Dec 1789 James Moodie of Melsetter Walls William Henderson Footman 1 1 £1.5.0
Total 2 1 2 £3.15.0

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Survey MALE SERVANTS TAX within the County of Orkney
from 5 April 1788 to 5 April 1789 By Alexander Fraser Surveyor
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I Alexander Fraser Surveyor aforesaid having examined the foregoing Survey Finds the same to amount to Three pounds
fifteen Shillings and maketh Oath that upon the Eighteenth day of February Seventeen hundred and Eighty Nine I delivered to Alexander
Fraser Collector of Cess and of the Said Tax for the Country aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the foregoing Survey duly Compared with the above
Alexander Fraser Surveyor

At Kirkwall 10th. February 1789
Sworn Before John Wier J:P. [Justice of the Peace]

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