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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Appointing the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply to be Ju&s;tices of Peace.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Brittain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender 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;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much, as by two former Proclamations Emitted by Us, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, upon the Ninth and Thirteenth of <HI>May</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hun|dred and ninety two years, We did Authorize, Declare and Appoint the Com|mi&s;&s;ioners of Supply of the haill re&s;pective Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, who had, or &s;hould Qualifie them&s;elves according to Law, to be Ju&s;tices of Peace in the &s;aids &s;everal Shires and Stewartries. And We taking in|to Our Con&s;ideration, how much the Appointing of Ju&s;tices of Peace within all the &s;aids Shires &amp; Stewartries of this Kingdom, and their due Attending the Di&s;charge of their &s;aid Tru&s;t doth Contribute to the Peace, Quiet and Good Government of this Our Kingdom, and to the &s;peedy and ea&s;ie E<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">ecution of Law and Ju&s;tice, to, and upon all Per&s;ons Subjected to their Juri&s;diction and Power. Therefore, and without Prejudice of the fore&s;aid former Proclama|tions, but for the Furtherance of the&s;e Ends, We with Advice of the Lords of Our privy Council, Declare, Appoint and Authorize the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply for the re&s;pective Shires and Stewartries of this Kingdom, Named for the &s;aid Tru&s;t, by the Acts of Parliament made anent the Supply, in the years one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and ninety, and one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and nine|ty five, and by the fir&s;t Act of the &s;ixth Se&s;&s;ion of this current Parliament, dated the twenty fifth of <HI>September</HI> la&s;t by-pa&s;t, who have, or &s;hall Qualifie them|&s;elves according to Law, to be Ju&s;tices of Peace in their &s;aids re&s;pective Shires and Stewartries, betwixt and the fifteenth Day of <HI>January</HI> next to come; with Power to them to Conveen, Do and Perform every thing, which to the &s;aid Office and Tru&s;t of a Ju&s;tice of Peace is competent and knowen to belong, by the &s;everal Laws and Acts of Parliament made thereanent, and In&s;tructions therein &s;et down. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you &s;trict|ly and Command, that incontinent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and to the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the remanent Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Intimation of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none pretend Ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>the third day of <HI>December,</HI> and of Our Reign the eight year 1696.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> GILB. ELIOT, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave the KING.</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 His mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1696.</P>
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