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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. in the County of Elgin
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6 Batchelors Servants at £1.5.0 each Over &Above the duty is £7.10.0
19 Servants at £1.5.0 each for a year is £23.15.0
11 Servants at £1.10.0 each for a year is £16.10.0
£47.15.0

I Patrick McDonald Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that Upon Careful Examination
of the foregoing Several Rates and duties I find they amount in whole to Forty seven pounds
fifteen shillings Sterling and that I deliverd to John Duff Collector of the said duties for the
County of Elgin Upon the 30th day of December 1786 An Exact duplicate of the Above Account
duly examind and Compard Which Containd my Oath that Notices were left with the whole
foregoing Inhabitants or at their dwelling Houses of the respective dates forsaid in Order that they
Might Make a Report of the greatest Number of Male Servants retaind & imployed by them for
the period therein Mentioned which they did in Substance. As Above
Patrick McDonald Surveyor
Sworn before me at Forres this 11 Day of Jany [January] 1787 Alexander Grant J.P [Justice of the Peace]