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</FIGURE><HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> For Collecting and In-bringing the Pole-Money, appointed to be payed at <HI>Martinma&s;s, 1695.</HI> by an Act of the last Se&s;&s;ion of Parliament.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith: To Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally con&s;titute, Greeting: Fora&s;much as, We have thought good, that the Pole-money Impo&s;ed by an Act of the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of Our Current Parliament, &s;hall be Uplifted <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd In-gathered by way of Collection. Therefore We, with Advice of Our Privy Council, and conform to the Reference made to them by the &s;aid Act, have Ordained, and hereby Ordains, that the fore&s;aid Pole-money be Upli&s;ted, Collected and brought in at the &s;ight, and by the direction of the Commi&s;&s;ioners for Supply, throughout the whole Shires of the Kingdom, in manner following, <HI>viz.</HI> That the &s;aids commi&s;&s;ioners, or their <HI>Quorum,</HI> appointed by the for&s;aid Act of Parliament, to meet and &s;ubdivide them&s;elves for taking up Rolls and Li&s;ts of all the Poleable per&s;ons within their re&s;pective bounds, the days, and in the manner mentioned in the &s;aid Act, do at the &s;aids days &s;ub-divide them&s;elves, appointing two, either of their own number, or of the Heretors of every Paroch, for each Paroch, with power to the &s;aids Sub-commi&s;&s;ioners at their meeting in the &s;aids Paroches, for taking up Li&s;ts and Rolls as &s;aid is to choo&s;e and nominat a fit and re&s;pon&s;al per&s;on to be both Clerk and Collector of the Pole of that Paroch; as al&s;o to call the Elders or Deacons, or other fit per&s;ons within the Paroch, and cau&s;e them give up upon Oath, to the be&s;t of their knowledge, the names of all the per&s;ons within the Paroch, and to cau&s;e every Hou&s;e-keeper give up the number, names, and quality of all within Hou&s;e, which names, with the qualities and degrees of the per&s;ons, and the condition of their E&s;tate, as they &s;tand Poleable by the &s;aid Act of Parliament, are to be &s;et down by the &s;aid Clerk in a Li&s;t or Roll, at the &s;ight of the &s;aids two Sub-Commi&s;&s;ioners for that end, and the &s;ame with the Sum that the whole Pole amounts to, is to be Sub&s;cribed by the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;io|ners (who are hereby fully impowered to controll the &s;ame, and to determine all que&s;tions ari&s;ing thereon) and their Clerk, and then to be given in to the Collector of the Supply within the Shire, who is to Regi&s;trat the &s;ame in a Book to be kept by him for that effect, and Extracts of the Roll of every Paroch are to be Sub&s;cribed, and given out by the Collector of the Shire to the Sub-Collectors of the Paroch, for upli&s;ting and in-gathering of the Sums therein contained; and the Li&s;t and Rolls of all the Paroches within the Shire being brought in, and Booked and Recorded as &s;aid is the Books &s;hall be Sub&s;cribed by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Shire, or their <HI>quorum,</HI> and an Authentick double thereof under the Commi&s;&s;ioners and their Col|lectors hands, &s;ent in to the Lords of the The&s;aury, betwixt and the day appointed by the &s;aid Act of Parliament: And the fore&s;aid sub-Collector of the &s;aid Paroches getting Sub&s;cribed Extracts of the Rolls, as &s;aid is, are to upli&s;t the Pole-money from the per&s;ons lyable therein, conform to the &s;aids Extract the time, and in the manner pre&s;cribed by the &s;aid Act of Par|liament; And for the di&s;charge of the per&s;ons making payment, the Sub-Collectors are to have another Roll or Book, bearing this Title, <HI>BOOK or ROLL of the Poleable per&s;ons within &s;uch a Paroch, who have made payment of their re&s;pective Poles, &s;et down, with their names in manner &s;ubjoyned.</HI> Which Title being Signed by the &s;aids two Sub-commi&s;&s;ioners, and the per&s;ons making payment getting their Names and Sums &s;et down in the &s;aid Roll or Book by the Sub-collector of the paroch, &s;hall be to them a &s;ufficient acquittance, without the nece&s;&s;ity of any Di&s;charge apart, in ca&s;e the party &s;hall not require a Di&s;charge: And this Book or Roll containing the names and proportions of the Deficients after the number of Thirty days allowed to the per&s;ons lyable to come in and make payment, &s;hall be given in, with the Money collected in every Paroch, to the Colletor for Supply of the Shire, who is immediatly, to give to the Sub-Collectors an Extract of the &s;aid Roll of payments for the Paroch, with his Di&s;charge at the foot thereof, Regi&s;trat in the Books of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply, and an Extract of the &s;ame is to be returned and kept in the Kirk Se&s;&s;ion Records of the Paroch: And the Collector for the Shire is further to in&s;ert the &s;aid Rolls, after fir&s;t being compared by two of the Commi&s;&s;io|ners with the former Rolls, in another Book, to be kept by the &s;aids Collectors, and Sub&s;cribed by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Shire, or their <HI>quorum,</HI> as the Regi&s;ter of payments, of which &s;econd Book or Regi&s;ter an authentick double &s;ub&s;cribed as above, is al&s;o to be &s;ent in to the Lords of Our The&s;aury, within Fifteen days after the expiring of the &s;aid Thirty days, and with|in the &s;ame &s;pace the fore&s;aid Collectors of Supply for the Shires, are hereby ordained to make payment to the Receiver-general of the Total received by them for the Paroches of every Shire, for which they are to have the General Receivers Di&s;charge so the Shire relative to the fore&s;aid Book and Regi&s;ter of payments brought in to the The&s;aury, as &s;aid is, and which Di&s;charge is to be Regi&s;trat in the Books of Exchequer, and an Extract thereof given to the Collector of the Shire, to be carried back and kept in the Records of the shire, and the fore&s;aid Clerks and Sub-Collectors of the Paroches, for their whole pains in the premi&s;&s;es, are to have an allowance from the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Shire out of their Collection, not exceeding two <HI>per Cent</HI> of the Money by them collected, and are hereby al&s;o declared to be puni&s;hable and fyneable for their neglect or fraud in the &s;aids Trufts by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Shires, as they &s;hall &s;ee cau&s;e. Likeas, the &s;aid Collector of Supply for the Shire, is for all his pains in the hail permi&s;&s;es, to have an allowance from the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Shire, not exceeding Two <HI>per Cent.</HI> of the Money to be payed in to him by the Sub-Collectors &amp; the &s;aid Collectors of Supply, is likewi&s;e hereby declared to be puni&s;hable and fynable by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Shire, for their neglect and fraud, as they &s;hall &s;ee cau&s;e: And the fore&s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Shires are hereby commanded to attend and do their duty in the premi&s;&s;es, in manner pre&s;cribed by the &s;aid Act of Par|liament for Pole-money, &amp; by this proclamation under the pain each of them of Ten Pounds <HI>Scots toties quoties,</HI> to be given to the Commi&s;&s;ioners that do meet; and the Clerks of Supply for the &s;everal Shires, are hereby ordained to &s;end in Li&s;ts to the Clerks of our Privy Council, of the Commi&s;&s;ioners that do not meet, or keep the meetings, either for the Paroches, or for the whole shire, Within the &s;pace of Fifteen days after the elap&s;ing of their re&s;pective Dyets, to the effect Letters may be direct against the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners, failzieing to meet, for payment of their &s;aids Fines. And further, the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, in ca&s;e of their other neglects and failzieurs in the premi&s;&s;es: As al&s;o, the &s;aid Collectors of Shires failzleing in their parts, are hereby declared pu|ni&s;hable by Our Council, as they &s;hall &s;ee cau&s;e: And what is hereby appointed as to Commi&s;&s;ioners of Shires within their bounds fore&s;aid, is al&s;o appointed and enjoyned to Magi&s;trats with|in Burgh, and their Sub-Collectors, and under the &s;ame pains in all points, with this expre&s;s provi&s;ion, that the Sub-Collectors for Burghs give in their whole Li&s;ts to the Collector of Supply of the Shire whereof they are apart, to be by them Regi&s;trat: And to the effect the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the shire may in&s;pect and &s;ee how the &s;ame are made and managed. And la&s;tly, It is declared, that the fore&s;aid Sub-Collectors and Collectors &s;hall have power to exact the doubles and quadruples, in ca&s;e of failzie, either by omitting, wrong up-giving, not pay|ment, or otherwi&s;e, conform to the &s;aid Act of Parliament, in which doubles and quadruples in the ca&s;es for&s;aids, the fore&s;aid Sub-Commi&s;&s;ioners for Paroches, and Commi&s;&s;ioners for Shires, are hereby impowered to decern the per&s;ons failzieing, and to direct Execution again&s;t them in all points, conform to the Act of Parliament. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We charge you &s;trictly, and command that incontinent, the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and to the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the remanent Head Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Our ancient Kingdom, and there by open Proclamation, make Intimation hereof, that none may pretend ignorance. And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Twenty &s;eventh day of <HI>July,</HI> and of Our Reign the Seventh Year, 1695</DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD Save the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to the His mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty <HI>Anno DOM,</HI> 1695.</P>
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