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<HEAD><HI>ACT</HI> Anent the Pole-Money.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE>March 23. 1699.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, as being impowered by the Twelfth Act of the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of this current Parliament, Intituled <HI>Act anent Pole-money,</HI> to Order and Appoint &s;uch other Methods and Cour|&s;es as they &s;hall judge fit, for &s;tating and In-bringing of the Pole-Money im|po&s;ed by the &s;aid Act: Do hereby Order and Appoint the Commi&s;&s;ioner of Supply in each Shire, to meet with all convenient Diligence at the Head-Burgh or other u&s;ual place of Meeting, within the &s;aid Shire by their Conveener; or if they have none, by the Sheriff for that effect; And there to Order one of their Number <HI>per vices,</HI> to Attend or keep Court Weekly two days at lea&s;t, <HI>viz. Tue&s;|day</HI> and <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> each Week at the &s;aid Burgh. As al&s;o, That the Magi&s;trats of Burghs Royal, Appoint one of their Number to Attend and keep Court Week|ly <HI>per vices</HI> within their Burgh at lea&s;t two days each Week, to the effect the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioner or Magi&s;trat &s;o to be appointed, may give out Warrands for Citation, at the In&s;tance of the Tack&s;men of the &s;aid Pole, or any having their Order, again&s;t the per&s;ons lyable in payment of the &s;aid Pole, Single, Double, or Quadruple, the Single and Double being always included in the &s;aid Quadru|ples, being the highe&s;t and outmo&s;t wherein any per&s;on can be lyable by the &s;aid Act; and &s;u&s;tain Proce&s;s and Admini&s;ter Ju&s;tice, and pa&s;s Decreets again&s;t the &s;aids Per&s;ons lyable, conform to the &s;aid Act of Parliament. As al&s;o, that Pro|ce&s;s be &s;u&s;tained in the ca&s;e fore&s;aid, upon a Citation to one Dyet, whereupon the Per&s;ons cited, if per&s;onally apprehended, may be likewi&s;e holden as Confe&s;t, and that upon the Decreets to be given by the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners or Magi&s;trats of Burghs again&s;t the Per&s;ons lyable in the fore&s;aid Pole; The like &s;ummar Ex|ecution may be directed as upon Decreets for Supply or Exci&s;e, Quartering on|ly excepted: And farder, that a Precept or Letters may be directed again&s;t all the&s;e that &s;hall be decerned for the &s;aid Pole, within one Shire or Burgh, and that the &s;everal Per&s;ons and Sums therein contained &s;hall not make &s;everal Cau&s;es, but &s;hall only be payed for as one Cau&s;e: And the &s;aids Lords do hereby appoint&amp;or|dain all Clerks of Shires and of Burghs Royal, to exhibite and make patent to the &s;aid Tack&s;men, or any having their Order, their re&s;pective Valuation and Stent-Roll when required, in order to particular mens Stents or Valuation, who&s;e Poles are not other ways determined; As likewi&s;e, that the Inhabitants of Burghs Royal give Li&s;ts when required, of &s;uch as Re&s;ide within their Families; and that the Magi&s;trats give the nece&s;&s;ary Orders for that effect: and the fore&s;aid Clerks of Shires and Burghs, and al&s;o their Collectors, are hereby Ordained to give to the &s;aids Tack&s;men or the&s;e having their Orders, Notes or Ab&s;tracts of what In|&s;truments may be taken in their hands by any Per&s;on lyable in the &s;aid Pole, a|nent their Li&s;ting or paying. And la&s;tly, the &s;aids Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, Require and Ordain the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the &s;aid Shires, to cau&s;e their Clerks give Extracts of their Collectors Bonds to the &s;aid Tack&s;men, or any ha|ving their Order; And if need beis, that they give al&s;o &s;ummar Proce&s;&s;es and Execution at the In&s;tance of the &s;aid Tack&s;men and their fore&s;aids, again&s;t the &s;aids Collectors and their Cautioners, upon their &s;aids Bonds as Accords. And the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners and Magi&s;trats of Burghs, and all others concerned, are here|by &s;trictly Commanded and Required to Ob&s;erve and Perform the Premi&s;&s;es as they will be an&s;werable. And the&s;e Pre&s;ents are Ordained to be Printed and Pub|li&s;hed at the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of Shires, and of all Burghs Royal in the u&s;ual Form.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Extracted by me</HI> GILB. ELIOT <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></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 Kings Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1699.</P>
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