E326/6/28/99

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A Survey of the FEMALE SERVANTS TAX in the Burgh of Selkirk
from the 5 of Aprile 1791 to the 5 of Aprile 1792. By William Brunton Surveyor SELKIRK

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1 Female Servant @ Sh. 5 [£0.5.0] Each is £0.5.0
3 Female Servants @ Sh. 2..6 [£0.2.6] Each is £0.7.6
£0.12.6
£0.10.6 @ 10 per Cent is £0.1.3
Sum Total £0.13.9

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing dutys I find they amount to the Sum of
Thirteen Shillings Nine pence and that upon the Nineteenth day of October I delivered to Peter Taitt Collector of said dutys for the
Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above which containd my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants were duly served with requisitions
of the dates aforesaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or Cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose an Attested list
of all the Servants Horses and Carriages used and employed by them from the fifth of Aprile Ninety one to the fifth of Aprile Ninety two as well as an account of what Servants horses and Carriages they might use and employ any where Else, And that the foregoing Report was made up from their Several Attested lists or Returns to me from the best information I could procure or from my own certain knowledge of their respective Establishments
[signed] William Brunton.