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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Servants names Number of servants Bachelor servants One servant Two servants Three or more servants Duty
1786 Brought forward 203 30 100 58 45 £54.10.0
Proof 203 20-10 80 48 45 £54.10.0

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FEMALE SERVANT TAX. of Forfarshire Continued

100 Single Female Servants of married & unmarried persons for one year at 2/6d [£0.2.6] each per year.............................is £12.10.0
58 Female Servants in pairs of married & unmarried persons for one year at 5/- [£0.5.0] each..............................................is £14.10.0
45 Female Servants of treebles of married & unmarried persons for one year at 10/- [£0.10.0] each....................................is £22.10.0
20 Female Servants of unmarried persons above the age of 21 for one year at 2/6d [£0.2.6] each.......................................is £2.10.0
10 Female Servants in pairs of unmarried persons above the age of 21 for one year Additionall duties at 5/- [£0.5.0] each is £2.10.0..£54.10.0

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the
foregoing duties I find they amount in whole to Fifty four Pounds & Ten Shillings Sterling
and that upon the __ day of March 1787 I delivered Major David Gardyne Collector of the said
duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Accounts / as will appear from
______duly examined ) & compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath that
nottices were 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 April 1785 to the fifth
day of April 1786, and that the said 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 notices left with them
as aforesaid. [Signed] William Greig Surveyor

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