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£51.5.0
10 Per Cent £5.2.6
£56.7.6

Aberdeen 25th January 1794 I Charles Farquharson Surveyor Aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that upon carefull
examination of the foregoing rates and duties I find they Amount to Fifty one pound five Shillings
Stlg. [Sterling]. Likewise with the additional dutie thereon of ten PCent [Per Cent], five pounds two Shillings & six pence.
And that on the Twenty fifth day of January 1794 I delivered to Mr William Copland Collector of the Said
duties for the Burgh aforesaid, an exact duplicate of the above Account as will appear from his Receipt
here unto Affixed duly examined and Compared with the foregoing, which contained My Oath that
requisitions 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 1792 to the fifth day
of April 1793, And that the Said account or Survey is made out from the lists returned to Me
and from information I could procure of the Male Servants of those whoes lists are deficient
and others who neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the Notices Left with
them as aforesaid. Charles Farquharson

Sworn at Aberdeen 25th Jany. [January] 1794
before George Auldjo J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

I William Copland Collector of the Land Tax for the Burgh of Aberdeen Do hereby acknowledge to [having]
this day received from Mr Charles Farquharson Surveyor of the Duties on Houses & Windows in the [Burgh]
of Aberdeen an exact Duplicate of the foregoing Survey of the Rates & Duties on Male Servants,
Amounting to fifty six pounds Seven Shillings & Six pence Sterling
Aberdeen 25 January 1794 William Copland

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