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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
Parishes Collected
Belly 7 5 2 £1.2.6
Speymouth 9 2 5 2 £1.12.6
Urquhart 3 2 1 £0.12.6
Langbride 1 1 £0.2.6
St Andrews 2 2 £0.10.0
Elgin 8 4 4 £1.10.0
Quarriewood 5 1 2 2 £1.0.0
Duffus 5 1 2 2 £1.0.0
Drainie 10 5 2 3 £6.15.0
Alvas 2 2 £0.10.0
Kingloss 5 5 £0.12.6
Forres 3 1 2 £0.12.6
Dyke 10 1 2 7 £4.0.0
Edinkillie 3 3 £0.7.6
Rafford 4 1 1 2 £0.17.6
Dollas 1 1 £0.2.6
Knockando 3 2 1 £1.2.6
Rothes 1 1 £0.2.6
Duthel 4 1 3 £0.12.6
Abernethie 5 1 4 £0.15.0
N.B. 91 10-2-5 44 20 10 £24.0.0

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Survey of the FEMALE SERVANTS TAX. in Elgin County
[Margin] Female Serv.[Servants] Elgin Shire Exd [Examined]

Prooff
£ Sh D
10 Bachelors Servants at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each over Duty for a year is £1.5.0
2 Bachelors Servants at 5/ [£0.5.0] each over Duty is £0.10.0
5 Bachelors Servants at 10/ [£0.10.0] each over Duty is £2.10.0
54 Servants at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each is £6.15.0
22 Servants at 5/ £0.5.0] each is £5.10.0
15 Servants at 10/ [£0.10.0] each is £7.10.0
£24.0.0 £24.0.0

I Patrick McDonald Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon careful Examination of the
forgoing several Rates & Duties I find they amount in whole to Twenty four Pounds Sterling and
that I Delivered to John Duff Collector of said Duties in the County of Elgin upon the 30th day of
Decemr. [December] 1786 an exact Duplicate of the above Account Duly examined and compared which con
tained my Oath that Notices were left with the whole forgoing Inhabitants or at their Dwelling
houses of the respective Dates foresaid In order that they might make a report of the Greatest
Number of Female Servants employed by them for the period therein mentioned which
they Did in Substance as above
Patrick McDonald Surveyor

Sworn before me at Forres this 11 Day of Jany. [January] 1787 Alexander Grant J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

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