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<HEAD>PROCLAMATION <HI>Anent Fourty-Penny-Pieces.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>20. <HI>September</HI> 1699.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>FOra&s;much as by Proclamation of the Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council of the date the 9th <HI>December</HI> 1697, All the Leidges are Required and Com|manded to Pa&s;s and Receive in Payments of all Sorts the <HI>Fourty-Penny-Pieces,</HI> of the Coyn and Mint of this Kingdom, at three &s;hilling &s;ix pennies <HI>Scots</HI> Mo|ney, how Bare &s;oever and worne by U&s;e the &s;amen be, if the Print and Ve|&s;tige of the Coyn of this Kingdom be vi&s;ible upon them, and thereby, di&s;char|ged any of the Leidges to refu&s;e the &s;aids <HI>Scots Fourty-penny-pieces</HI> at the Rate of three &s;hilling &s;ix pennies, under the pain of being lyable to pay the double of what they refu&s;e to the Party who offered the &s;ame to be decerned immediatly without any Proce&s;s, and exacted from the Refu&s;er by any Magi&s;trat within this Kingdom, in favours and to the behove of them from whom any of the &s;aids <HI>Fourty-penny-pieces</HI> are refu&s;ed: And the Lord Provo&s;t, Baillies and Council of this City being re&s;olved to &s;ee the &s;aid Act of Privy Council inviolably ob&s;erved within the &s;amen, and Priviledges thereof. The&s;e are therefore, In His Maje|&s;ties Name and Authority, and in Name and Authority of the Right Honourable the Lord Provo&s;t, Baillies and Council of this City, Commanding &amp; Requiring all His Maje&s;ties Liedges within the &s;amen, and Priviledges thereof, to Pa&s;s and Receive in payments of all Sorts the &s;aids <HI>Fourty-pennie-pieces</HI> at the rate fore&s;aid, in the Terms and under the pains contained in the fore&s;aid proclamation. And or|dains thir pre&s;ents to be publi&s;hed as u&s;e is, and printed, that none may pretend Ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Extracted by</HI> GEORGE HOME</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD Save 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 the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, City and Colledge 1699.</P>
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