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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants Arisen in the Burgh of Aberbrothock for one year commencing
the fifth day of April 1786, and ending the fifth day of April 1787 by William Greig Surveyor
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I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing duties I find they amount in whole to Nine pounds Ten shillings Sterling, and that upon the ... day March 1787 I delivered Mr John Colvill 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 fifth day of 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