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<HEAD>ACT <HI>Appointing the Inhabitants within the City of</HI> EDINBURGH <HI>to give up Li&s;ts of all Per&s;ons Lodging within their Hou&s;es ilk Night.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much, as the Lord Provo&s;t, Bailiffs, Council, and Deacons of Crafts, taking to their Con&s;ideration, that there are many di&s;orderly and vagrant Per&s;ons, di&s;&s;afected to the Government, who does con&s;tantly haunt and frequent in and about this City, and who can give no good account of them|&s;elves; For remeed whereof, the &s;aid Lord Provo&s;t, Bailiffs, and Council, Ordains all the Inhabitants within this Burgh, to give up Li&s;ts under their hands ilk night to the Main guard, of all and what&s;omever Per&s;ons that Lodges within their Hou&s;es, &amp; that they give up their Names and De&s;ignations: Certifying all &s;uch as &s;hall neglect, and not give due obedience to this Act, that they &s;hall be holden and repute as di&s;loyal Per&s;ons, and di&s;&s;affected to the pre&s;ent Government, and &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t as &s;uch accor|dingly, and &s;hall be further Fined in the Sum of five pound Ster|ling for ilk Fail&yogh;ie, toties quoties: And in regard there are many Inhabitants who Harbours and Lodges &s;uch vagrant Per|&s;ons, and gives no Intimation thereof to the Magi&s;trates, and tho&s;e appointed by them, but conceals the &s;ame: Therefore the &s;aid Lord Provo&s;t, Bailiffs, and Council, Declares, that what|&s;oever Per&s;on or Per&s;ons &s;hall give true Information where, and in who&s;e Family, any &s;uch Per&s;ons are harboured, that they &s;hall have for their Encouragement and Pains, the Sum of five pound Sterling, payed to them by the Town Council for ilk di&s;&s;affected Per&s;on who &s;hall be found in any Hou&s;e within this Burgh: And appoints Intimation to be made hereof by tuck of Drum, that none pretend Ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Extracted by me JO. RICHARDSON.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His Maie&s;ty, City and Colledge, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1685.</P>
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