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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> For bringing in and paying the Arrears due by the Forces to the Countrey.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defen|ders of the Faith;</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everal|ly &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as; by the Ninth Act of the Fourth Se&s;&s;ion of this Our currant Par|liament, for Pole-money, the &s;ame is mo&s;t &s;trictly Appointed and De&s;tined, for payment of the Arrears due to the Countrey and Army, preceeding the fir&s;t of <HI>February,</HI> One-Thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and ninety one Years, In the fir&s;t place: Prohibiting and Di&s;charging the applying thereof to any other u&s;e what&s;oever, and Certifying &s;uch as &s;hall either give orders for mi&s;-applying thereof, or intromet with the &s;ame, the Mi&s;-applyers and Receivers thereof, &s;hall be lyable conjunctly and &s;everally in the double thereof, at the in&s;tance of any party concerned, and their privat E&s;tates &s;ubject and lyable for the double of that which &s;hall be &s;o mi&s;-applyed. And further, It is by the &s;aid Act Declared, That where the Arrears due to the Countrey, by the Forces, &s;hall be fir&s;t duely &s;tated for any Burgh or Shire, conform to the Orders and Rules &s;et down thereanent, the Burgh or Shire to whom the &s;aid Arrears &s;hall be found due, &s;hall have Retention, and get a Di&s;charge of their Pole-money, in &s;atisfaction of their &s;aid Arrears; and where the Arrears due to any Shire or Burgh, exceeds the Pole-money due by the &s;aid Burgh and Shire, then and in that ca&s;e the &s;aid &s;uper|plus &s;hall be ordered to be payed by the Lords of the The&s;aury, out of the Pole-money due and brought in from other places, with regard always to the total of the&s;e arrears, and to the total of the &s;aid Pole-money, that the fore&s;aid &s;uperplus may be payable, and payed propor|tionally, as the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament, Impowering the Lords of Our Privy Council to Determine all Difficulties thereby undeter|mined, that may ari&s;e anent the Premi&s;&s;es, more fully bears. Likeas the &s;aids Lords of Our Privy Council having thought fit, for the better Ingathering of the fore&s;aid Pole-money, and for the more &s;ure an&s;wering of the ends and u&s;es to which it is Appropriat, as &s;aid is, that the &s;aid Pole-money &s;hould be &s;et in Tack upon a Roup, for payment of the highe&s;t Tack-duty that &s;hould be offered; We in pro&s;ecution of the &s;aid Act of Parliament, and Acts of Our Council, for Setting the fore&s;aid Tack, Did by Our Proclamati|on of the Date the la&s;t of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t by pa&s;t, require and Command all Burghs and Shires, to whom any Arrears were due, as &s;aid is, and who might pretend to the benefit of the fore&s;aid Retention, to cau&s;e &s;tate and bring in their Accompts thereof to the Clerks of Our Privy Council, to the effect that they might be there Revi&s;ed and Approven, and payment ordered accordingly, as the &s;aid Procla|mation, bearing an expre&s;s di&s;tinction of the Arrears due by the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Forces, from the&s;e due by the Scots Forces at more length proports And We being firmly re&s;olved, That notwith&s;tanding that few or none of the &s;aids Shires and Burghs have obtained their the payment of the &s;aid Pole-money, to the effect they might have had the benefit of the Retention above provided: Yet neverthe|le&s;s the De&s;tination contained in the fore&s;aid Act, for the payment of the &s;aid Arrears to the fir&s;t place, &s;hall be &s;trictly and punctual|ly kept, without any violation, or taking the lea&s;t advantage of the fore&s;aids Shires and Burghs, their neglect and omi&s;&s;ion; Have therefore, and to make the fore&s;aid De&s;tination more effectual, and the payment of the &s;aid Shire and Burghs more &s;ure and punctual, with the Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council Ordered, Likeas, We with Advice fore&s;aid, Do hereby Order and Appoint the fore&s;aids Shires and Burghs; As also, all others to whom any Arrears are due by Our Forces out of the Pole-money, to &s;end in to the Clerks of Our Privy Council, the Accompts of their &s;aid Arrears, duly &s;tated conform to former Orders, to be Revi&s;ed and Approv|en by the Lords of Our Privy Council, and that peremptorly betwixt and the fifteenth Day of <HI>January</HI> next to come, Certifying all &s;uch as &s;hall fail&yogh;ie herein, that their Accompts &s;hall not be hereafter received, in re&s;pect of their &s;aid neglect and Contumacy, and that their falling &s;hart, or being delayed of the payment hereby for them intended, &s;hall only be imputable to their own fault. And it is further hereby Declared, That when ever the fore&s;aids Accompts, hereby ordered to be brought in, &s;hall be Revi&s;ed and Ap|proven by the Lords of Our Privy Council, to whom We earne&s;tly Recommend to di&s;patch the &s;ame with all diligence po&s;&s;ible, then the Lords of Our The&s;aury are with all due conveniency to give Precepts to the &s;aids Shires and Burghs, and others concerned, upon Our Genetal Receivers for payment to them of the re&s;pective Sums that &s;hall be found due by the &s;aids Lords of Our Privy Council in manner fore&s;aid, to the effect that Our &s;aid General Receiver, to whom the Tack-duty of the &s;aid Pole-money, is by the Tack &s;et to the Farmours thereof, appointed to be paid at the Terms of <HI>Candlema&s;s</HI> and <HI>Whit&s;unday</HI> next therein &s;pecified, may make punctual pay|ment of the &s;aids Precepts, after the fore&s;aids Terms, and as he &s;hall be ordered by the &s;aids Lords of Our The&s;aury. And la&s;tly, it is hereby Declared, That the&s;e Pre&s;ents &s;o exactly calculat, for the furthering of the Countreys payment of the &s;aid Arrears, conform to the &s;aid Act of Parliament, &s;hall be without prejudice to the Farmours of the Pole-money, of their uplifting of the &s;ame, as al&s;o of the payment, to be made by them of their Tack-duty, therefore, conform to the Tenor of their Tack in all points. OUR WILL IS herefore, and We Charge you &s;trictly and Commands, that incontinent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edin|burgh,</HI> and, to the Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the &s;everal shires of this Kingdom, and there, in Our Name and Authority make publication hereof, that none 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 &s;ixteenth Day of <HI>November.</HI> And of Our Reign the &s;ixth Year, <HI>1694.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD Save King <HI>William</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;son,</HI> Printer to Their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1694.</P>
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