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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
5 Aug 1789 Royal Burgh of Lanark
Miss Porterfield at Smeillom to be paid for at Edinr [Edinburgh] George Dickson
John Turnbull
Coachman
footman
John Haddow Vintner Thomas Pait Occasional Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
Total of The Royal Burgh of Lanark 1 1 £1.5.0
Grand Total £1.5.0
Proofs 1 Male Servt [Servant] at £1.5.0 per Year is £1.5.0
Grand Total £1.5.0

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A Survey of the Duties on Male Servants in the Royal Burgh of Lanark for the Year from the 5th of April 1788 to the 5th of April 1789
MALE SERVANTS TAX
Surveyed the 5th day of August 1789 By William Mure Surveyor

I William Mure Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby Certify that, upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing
Several Rates & Duties, I find they Amount in Whole to One pound five Shillings Sterling and that upon the
-- I delivered to -- Collector of the said duties for the
Burgh aforesaid, an Exact Duplicate of the above Account, Duly Examined and Compared with the
foregoing, which Contained my Oath, that Notices were left with the Several Inhabitants, or at their
Dwelling houses, of the dates annexed to their respective Names that they were to be charged with
the sums hereby Certified to be due from them
William Mure
Glasgow 5th day of January 1790 Sworn before me James Corbet JP [Justice of the Peace]


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