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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> Prorogating the Dyets of giving in Li&s;ts of Poleable Per&s;ons, and payment of their Pole-money, and pre&s;cribing Methods for the exactne&s;s and perfecting of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> by the Grace of God, King of great <HI>Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, To  <GAP DESC="blank">  Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, Conjunctly and Severally, &s;pecially, Con&s;titute, Greeting; Forasmuch as, by the Act of Parliament one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and ninty five years anent the <HI>Pole-money,</HI> and former Proclamations and Orders of Our Privy Council thereanent, &s;everal days were prefixt for &s;ending in from the &s;everal Shires of this Kingdom to the Clerk of our The&s;aury Ab&s;tracts of the Li&s;ts and Rolls made up within the re&s;pective Sub-divi&s;ions of the &s;aids Shires; Neverthele&s;s the &s;aids Ab&s;tracts are either wholly neglected, or &s;ent in &s;o defective and Lame, that no di&s;tinct Charge can be formed thereupon, either again&s;t the Collectors of the Shires, or Paroch Collectors, or the&s;e lyable in payment of the &s;aid Pole-money, in &s;o far as in &s;everal of the &s;aids Books and Li&s;ts there are no Sums drawn out upon either the Stock, or Rent, or Characters, and Conditions of the per&s;ons Poleable, and the Fees of Servants are conde&s;cended on only for half a year, whereas the Ma&s;ter is lyable for the whole years Pole out of the halfyears Fee, and &s;ome conde&s;cends upon Per&s;ons Merchandizing, and Exerci&s;ing Trades, and keeping Servants, and yet bears them not able to pay Pole, and the general Pole of &s;ix pence is not adjected to the particular Pole, and the valued Rent is not divided among&s;t the Tennents conform to their Po&s;&s;es&s;ions but charged <HI>in cumulo,</HI> and that there are &s;everal other Defects and Omi&s;&s;ions in the &s;aids Books, for Remeid whereof, and for perfecting the Li&s;ts and Rolls of the poleable per&s;ons within the &s;everal Shires of this Kingdom; and for Rectifying and Amending the &s;everal Defects and Mi&s;takes above-written, and to the effect the Pole-money may be fully and exactly gathered up according to the perfected Li&s;ts, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council have thought fit to prorograt and continue the days for compleating the &s;aids Li&s;ts and Rolls, and paying in the Pole-money due by the &s;everal Leidges of this our Kingdom until the Fifteenth day of <HI>January</HI> next to come for all upon this &s;ide of <HI>Tay,</HI> except <HI>Perth</HI> Shire, and to the fir&s;t day of <HI>February</HI> for <HI>Perth-Shire</HI> and all beyond <HI>Tay,</HI> hereby Requiring and Commanding the Collectors of Supply within the &s;everal Shires of this Kingdom, betwixt and the days <HI>re&s;pec|tive</HI> fore&s;aids, to make up exact and compleat Li&s;ts of all per&s;ons Poleable within their re&s;pective Shires, in the Terms of the Act of Parlia|ment anent the Pole-money, who may be either altogether omitted, or not Inrolled to their ju&s;t Avail by the Sub-Collectors of the re&s;pective Di|vi&s;ions and Paroches within the &s;everal Shires, for which the &s;aids Collectors of Supply are allowed to retain five <HI>per Cent,</HI> in their own hands, out of the Pole-money which &s;hall be Collected by them from the per&s;ons either omitted or not duely Inrolled as &s;aid is: And likeways we hereby Require &amp; command the &s;aids Collectors of Supply betwixt and the days <HI>re&s;pective</HI> fore&s;aid to go through every Paroch within their re&s;pective Shires, and there revi&s;e and examine the Li&s;ts and Rolls given in to them by the Collectors of the &s;everal Sub-divi&s;ions and Paroches, and make Tryal of the famen that they be full and exact, and to make u&s;e of the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Elders, and Examination Rolls of every Paroch, and if need beis to Execute our former Letters of Horning granted to them for that Effect, and to do all other Diligence allowed by our Laws for perfecting and compleating the &s;aids Li&s;ts and Rolls betwixt and the days fore&s;aids: And the &s;aids Re&s;pective Collectors of Supply within the &s;everal Shires are hereby allowed to retain in their own hands two <HI>per Cent.</HI> of the whole Pole-money Collected and Uplifted within the re&s;pective Shires for their pains and Travell in the Premi&s;&s;es and that by and attour the Allowance granted to them by this and our former Proclamations and Orders: And We with Advice fore&s;aid, Require and command all and every one of our Subjects lyable in payment of the Pole-money contained in the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament to make due and compleat payment thereof to the re&s;pective Collectors appointed for that Effect betwrixt and the days re&s;pective abovementioned, with Certification whoever &s;hal be found defficient thereafter &s;hal be lyable in the Quadruple of their Pole-money which we hereby Ordain to be exacted without any Abatement, ea&s;e, ordelay, &amp; we with Advice fore&s;aid Require &amp; Command the &s;everal Collectors of Supply within this Kingdom to make report of their diligence, by &s;ending in exact and compleat Ab&s;tracts of the Li&s;ts and Rolls of the Poleable Per&s;sons within their Bounds to the Clerk of Our The&s;aury; And likeways by paying in the whole Pole-money Collected and Received by them, betwixt and the days <HI>re&s;pective</HI> above-mentioned, as they will be an&s;werable. And to the effect We may be informed of, and under&s;tand if there be any neglect, connivance, or omi&s;&s;ion in any of the Collectors of Supply within the &s;everal Shires, in the punctual ob&s;ervance and execution of the premi&s;&s;es, We, with advice and con&s;ent fore&s;aid, command the Sheriff-Deputes within the &s;everal Shires of this Kingdom, betwixt and the Fifteenth day of <HI>February</HI> next to come, for all upon the South-&s;ide of <HI>Tay,</HI> except <HI>Perth</HI>-Shire; And for <HI>Perth</HI>-Shire, and all be-north <HI>Tay</HI> betwixt and the Fir&s;t day of <HI>March</HI> there|after, to Supervi&s;e and Examine the diligence u&s;ed by the Collectors of Supply within the &s;aids re&s;pective Shires, and to make up Rolls of all per|&s;ons he &s;hall di&s;cover, either to be altogether omitted, and not given up in Li&s;t, or not Inrolled to the ju&s;t avail of their Pole, or who have not made payment of the Pole-money due by them, and to exact and li&s;t the quadruple of the Pole-money wherein any of the &s;aids per&s;ons are lyable, whereof they &s;hall retain the one half to them&s;elves, and make payment to Us of the other half, betwixt and the days la&s;t above-mentioned, as they will be an&s;werable, OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you &s;trictly, and command that incontinent thir Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within the Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority make publick Intimation of the premi&s;&s;es, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the Ninteenth day of</HI> December, <HI>and of Our Reign the Seventh Year, 1695.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<HI>Ex Deliberatione Dominorum Sti. Concilij.</HI>
<SIGNED>GILB. ELIOT <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilij.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD Save the KING.</CLOSER>
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