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FEMALE-SERVANTS TAX. of Aberbrothock Continued
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Proof
38 Single Servants of married & unmarried persons for one year as above at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each £4.15.0
18 Single Servants (in pairs) of married & unmarried persons for one year as above at 5/ [£0.5.0] each is £4.10.0
4 Single Servants (ones) of unmarried persons for one year Additionall dutie at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each is £0.10.0
£9.15.0

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing
Rates & Duties I find they amount in whole to Nine Pounds fifteen Shillings Sterling, and that
the [blank] day of March 1787 I delivered Mr. John Colvill Collector of the said Duties for the Burgh
aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Accounts as will appear from [blank] duly
examined or compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath that notices were left with
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 the list of their Female 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 total
is made out from the lists returned to me, and from the best information I could procure of the Female
Servant of those who neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the Nottices left withthem
as aforesaid. William Greig Surveyor