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4 at £1.5.0 £5.0.0
34 at £1.5.0 £42.10.0
£47.10.0
10 per cent £4.15.0
£52.5.0

Aberdeen January 1795 I Charles Farquharson Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that upon Careful
examination of the foregoing Rates and duties I find they Amount to Forty Seven pounds ten Shillings
Sterl. [Sterling] Likewise with the additional dutie thereon of ten P [per] Cent four pounds fifteen Shillings Sterl. [Sterling]
And that upon the Seventeeth day of January 1795 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 hereunto affixed / 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 1793 to the 5th April 1794, 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 whose
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
At Aberdeen 17 Jany [January] 1795

George Auldjo J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

I William Copland Collector of the Land Tax for the Burgh of Aberdeen, do hereby acknowledge [that]
I this day Received from Mr Charles Farquharson, a Duplicate of the foregoing Survey, amounting
Fifty Two Pounds five Shillings Sterling
Aberdeen 19 January 1795
W Copland

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