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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 10% per 31 George III
1792
30 Jul 1792 Mrs Johnston of Hutton hall 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
James Seton 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Sir James Baird 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Mrs Fairbairn vint [vintner] Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Dr [Doctor] Richard Sommers Ch [Chaise] driver 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
John Clerk vint [vintner] a Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
7 7 £8.15.0 £0.17.6

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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX in the Royalty of Haddington
from the 5 April 1792 to the 5 April 1793 by William Johnstone Surveyor

Proof 7 Servants at £1.5.0 is £8.15.0
and 10 pcent on this sum is £0.17.6
The amount is £9.12.6 Sterling

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull examination I find the foregoing Duties
amount to the sum of Nine Pounds twelve shillings & sixpence Sterling and that upon the 11 Oct [October] 1792 I delivered
to John Carfrae Collector of said duties an exact duplicate of this Accompt duely examined & compared which contained
my Oath That the foregoing Inhabitants were duely served with Requisitions And that they were charged according
to the Answers they made thereto or according to my knowledge & belief that they were liable in said duties
William Johnstone Surveyor

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