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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
1789 Island of Bute
27 Jul 1789 Earl of Bute Mountstewart John Douglas Gardner 1 1 £1.5.0
William McLeod Bannatyne Esq Batr Batchelor] Malcolm McLeod
John Munro
House Servant
Gardner
2 2 2 £5.0.0
Total 3 2 3 £6.5.0

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Country Part of Bute
Male Servants Tax
From 5th April 1789 to 5th April 1790 By Robert Aitken Surveyor

Proof
2 Bat Servt [Bachelor Servants] at £2.10.0 £5.0.0
1 Servt [Servant] at £1.5.0 £1.5.0
Total £6.5.0

I Robert Aitken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify
That upon carefull examination of the foregoing rates and Duties I find they amount in
whole to Six pounds Five shillings Sterling and that upon the Thirteenth day of March
current I caused to be delivered to Mr Alexander May Principal Collector of said Duties for
said Shire an exact duplicate of said duly examined and compared with the fore
going Accompt which contained my oath that Notifications were delivered or left
of the dates foresaid; and that the rates charged in said Acct. [Account] were just and true
to the level of my Skill and Knowledge; and to the best of my belief no person
liable to be charged was omitted. Robert Aiken Surveyor

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