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<HEAD>ACT Appointing Collectors of Shires to receive Clipped Merk-pieces from the Pari&s;h-Collectors of the Pole|money, and ordaining diligence again&s;t Pari&s;h-Col|lectors.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE>January <HI>28. 1696.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THE Lords of His Majesties Privy Council do here|by appoint the Collectors of Shires for the Pole-money, to receive from the Collectors of particular Pari&s;hes, all &s;uch clipped old Merk-pieces, and their Fractions, as the Pari&s;h-Collectors &s;hall deliver to them, the &s;aids Pari&s;h-Collectors fir&s;t giving their Oaths in pre&s;ence of one of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply within the Shires where they are Collectors, that they offer or deliver no other clipped Merk-pieces and their Fractions to the &s;aids Collectors of Shires, but &s;uch as were truly received in by them the Pari&s;h-Col|lectors, in payment of the Pole-money which they give in to the &s;aid Collectors of Shires, and that before the Proclamation di&s;charging the &s;aids Merk-pieces and their Fractions was promulgat in the re&s;pective Shires where the Deponents lives: And the Council declares, that no Pole-mo|ney is to be exacted for any per&s;ons who died before the Term of <HI>Martinma&s;s</HI> la&s;t, being the first Term appointed for uplift|ing the Pole-money: And the Council do hereby ordain all &s;uch diligence to pa&s;s at the in&s;tance of the Collectors of Shires, again&s;t the Collectors of particular Pari&s;hes, for giv|ing in of Li&s;ts of Poleable per&s;ons in their Bounds, and pay|ment of the Pole-money Collected by them, as is allowed to pa&s;s, and to be direct against the Poleable per&s;ons them|&s;elves. And ordains thir pre&s;ents to be Printed, and ap|points His Maje&s;ties Solicitor to &s;end Printed Copies hereof to the &s;everal Collectors of Shires.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Extracted by me <HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></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 the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1696.</P>
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