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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants arisen in the Burgh of Aberbrothock for three quarters of one
Year commenceing the fifth day of July 1784 and ending the 5th of April 1785 by William Greig Surveyor

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing Rates and duties I find they amount in whole to two pounds Sixteen Shillings and three pence Sterling and that upon the ... day of ... 1786 I delivered Mr John Colvill Collector of the Cess
and of the Said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above account (as will appear from ....)
duly compared and examined with the foregoing 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 1784 to the fifth day of April 1785 and that the said Account or Survey is made out from the list returned to me & from the best information I could procure of the Servants of those who neglected or refused to give in a list of their Servants in terms of the Nottices left with them as aforesaid
William Greig Surveyor