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Date	Masters/mistresses names and designations	Servants names	Number of servants	Bachelor servants	One servant	Duty
26 Jun 1788	The Burgh of Selkirk
	John Lang Writer in Selkirk --3		2		1	£0.2.6
	George Roger Writer in Selkirk --1		1		1	£0.2.6
	Andrew Henderson Junr. [Junior] Writer Selkirk --1		1	1		£0.5.0
	Andrew Henderson Senior Writer Selkirk --2		1
			7	1	2	£0.10.0
		Total	3

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SELKIRK
A Survey of the [FEMALE SERVANTS TAX] in the Burgh of Selkirk from
the 5 of Aprile 1787 to the 5 of Aprile 1788 By William Brunton Surveyor
[Page] 121

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1 Female Servant @ £0.5.0 Each is £0.5.0
2 Female Servants @ £0.2.6 Each is £0.5.0
Sum Total £0.10.0

I William Brunton Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby Certify that Upon Carefull examination
of the foregoing Taxs I find they Amount in whole to the Sum of Ten Shills. [Shillings] Ster [Sterling] And that upon
the twenty Second day of October 1788 I delivered to John Lang Collector for Said
Burgh a Copy of the Above duly Compared which Containd my Oath that Requisitions were
left with the forgoing persons that they were to be Charged with the Sums Set Against their
Severall Names -
William Brunton Survyr [Surveyor]

Transcriber's notes

Number of children under 14 are 7

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