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<DIV1 TYPE="Act of Supply Commission">
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<HEAD>ACT OF THE Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply Of the SHERIFFDOM of EDINBURGH, <HI>Anent the Settlement of the Prices of Victual within the &s;aid Shire, to the Fir&s;t Day of</HI> September <HI>next.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>April 28. 1699.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe COMMISSIONERS of Supply of the Sheriffdom of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> appointed by Act of His Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Honourable Privy Council, of the date the la&s;t Day of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t by pa&s;t, for Stating and Settling the Prices of Victual within the &s;aid Shire, Having &s;everal times conveened at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> and <HI>Dalkeith;</HI> and la&s;t of all being met and conveened this day; And having taken true and exact Try|al of the Prices of Victual, for five Weeks &s;pace preceeding the Date of the &s;aid Act, and du|ly con&s;idered the &s;aids Prices: The &s;aids COMMISSIONERS, by vertue of the Power gi|ven and committed to them by the fore&s;aid Act of Council, have Stated and Settled, and hereby STATES and SETTLES the highe&s;t Prices of the be&s;t Victual and Meal to be as fol|lows, <HI>To wit</HI>
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<ITEM>The be&s;t Wheat Seventeen Pounds <HI>Scots per</HI> Boll.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The be&s;t Oats Twelve Pounds <HI>per</HI> Boll.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The be&s;t Barley Bear Thirteen Pounds Six Shilling Eight Pennies <HI>per</HI> Boll.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The be&s;t Pea&s;e Thirteen Pounds <HI>per</HI> Boll.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The be&s;t Oat Meal, by Weight, being Eight Stone, at Sixteen Shilling Six Pennies, <HI>per</HI> Half Stone, for the Peck.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The be&s;t Bear Meal, at Eight Pounds <HI>per</HI> Boll, being Ten Shilling <HI>per</HI> Peck.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The be&s;t Pea&s;e Meal, Nine Pounds Twelve Shilling <HI>Scots</HI> Money <HI>per</HI> Boll, being Twelve Shilling <HI>per</HI> Peck.</ITEM>
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<P>And the fore&s;aid Prices &s;o Settled, are appointed by the &s;aid Act of Privy Council, to be the Feer and Settled Prices until the Fir&s;t Day of <HI>September</HI> next: And none are to pre&s;ume to Sell at higher Rates, either in Mercats, Girnels, or otherwi&s;e, within the &s;aid Sheriff|dom, under the Certification of being Pur&s;ued as U&s;urers and Occurers, as the Act bears.</P>
<P>And to the end the above written Prices may be publi&s;hed, the &s;aids COMMISSIONERS Ordained, and ORDAINS thir Pre&s;ents to be Printed, and their Clerk to &s;end through Copies to all the Paroch Kirks of the Shire, to be Read the next LORDS Day after Divine Service; <HI>As al&s;o,</HI> Doubles to be &s;ent to the Baillies of Burghs within the Shire, to be by them Proclaimed at their Mercat Cro&s;&s;es: And this pre&s;ent Settlement of the Prices of the &s;aid Victual and Meal to be Binding, and take Effect after the Publication and Intimation here|of. And ORDAINS thir Pre&s;ents to be Recorded in the <HI>Sederunt</HI> Books of the &s;aids COM|MISSIOMERS.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Sic Sub&s;cribitur</HI> John Clerk, <HI>I. P. C.</HI></SIGNED>
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<P>Extracted forth of the <HI>Sederunt</HI> Books of the &s;aids <HI>COMMISSIONERS,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>by RO. THOMSON <HI>their Clerk.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINBURGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>James Wat&s;on</HI> in <HI>Craig's</HI> Clo&s;s on the North Side of the Cro&s;s, 1699.</P>
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