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Date Masters & mistresses names & designations Servants names Quality of servants Number of servants Bachelor servants One and two servants Three and four servants Five to seven servants Eight to ten servants Eleven or more servants Duty
29 Aug 1786 Doctr [Doctor] John Ogilvie Robert Ross Household 1 1 £1.5.0
31 Aug 1786 Mr William Monrow John Cameron Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
2 2 £2.10.0

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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants Arisen in the Burgh of Forfar for one year commencing the
fifth day of April 1786 and ending the fifth day of April 1787 by William Greig Surveyor.

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing duties I find they amount in Whole to two
pounds ten shillings Sterling and that upon the .... day of ... 1787 I delivered Mr Archibald Thornton Collector of the Said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account (as will appear from ......) duly examined and Compared 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 Male Servants retained or employed by them from the fifth day of April 1785 to the 5th 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 Male Servants of those who neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the nottices left with them as aforesaid.
William Greig Surveyor

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