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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 Five to seven Eight to ten Eleven or more Duty 10% per 31 George III 10% per 36 George III
Proof
4 Male Servants at £1.5.0 above the duty £5.0.0
9 Male Servants at £1.5.0 yr.[year] £11.5.0
25 Male Servants at £1.10.0 per yr £37.10.0
10 Male Servants at £2.0.0 per year £20.0.0
£73.15.0
Ten per Cent thereon is £7.7.6
Ten per Cent additional is £7.7.6
£88.10.0 Total

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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. . Wigtownshire continued

I David Mcmillan Survr. [Surveyor] aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing Several Rates & Duties
I find they amount in whole to the sum of Eighty eight Pounds ten shillings Ster. [Sterling] and that upon the twenty ninth
day of January one thousand and seven hundred & ninety eight years I delivered to Thomas Adair Esq. Writer to the
Signet an exact Duplicate of the foregoing which contained my oath that Requisitions or Notices
were delivered to or left for the several foregoing Persons of the dates foresaid and the charge made
out from their returns on my best Information.

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