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INVERBERVIE [Page] 55
A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Female Servants arisen in the Burgh of Bervie for three quarters of one year commenceing the fifth day of July 1784 and ending the fifth day of April 1785 by William Greig Surveyor

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2 Female Servants of one Married person for 9 Months as above £0.7.6.
7 Female Single of ditto Married persons for 9 Months at £0.1.10½ each is £0.13.1½
Totall £1.0.7½

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing Duties I find they amount in
whole to One pound Sevenpence halfpenny Sterling, and that upon the day of 1786 I delivered Mr John Duncan
Collector of the Cess and of the Said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above Account (as will appear from
) I duly examined and compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath that nottices were left with
the Severall persons before named or at their dweling houses of the date aforesaid, requiring them within 14 days to give in a
list of their Servants retained or employed by them from the fifth day of July 1784 to the fifth day of April 1785 and that the said
Account or Survey is made out from the Lists retuned to me, and from the best information I could procure of the Servants of those
who neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in Terms of the nottices left with them as aforesaid.
William Greig Surveyor