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Female Servants tax Montrose - Burgh ending 5th April 1786

Proof
7 Female Servants Single of unmarried persons of above the age of 21 for 3 quarters of one year at £0.1.10½ each is £0.13.1½
2 Female Servants (a pair) of unmarried persons of above the age of 21 for 3 quarters of one year at £0.3.9 each is £0.7.6
93 Female Servants Single of Married persons for 3 quarters of one year at a £0.1.10½ each is £8.14.4½
74 Female Servants (pairs) of Married persons for 3 quarters of one year at £0.3.9 each is £13.17.6
Totall £23.12.6

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the forgoing duties I find they amount
in whole to Twenty Three Pounds Twelve Shillings & Sixpence Sterling and that upon the [blank] day of May 1786 I delivered to
Mr Robert Napier Junr [Junior] Collector of the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account as it
appears from [blank] duly examined and Compared with the forgoing, which contained my Oath that
Nottices were left with the Several persons before named or at their dwelling houses of the dates Annexed to their respective
names requiring them within fourteen days to give in a list of their servants retained or employed by them from the fifth day of July
to the Fifth of April 1785 and that Account or Survey is made out from the lists returned 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

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