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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> For the more ea&s;ie and effectual In-bringing of the Pole-money.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WILLIAM</HI> By the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britan, 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 &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting: <HI>Forasmuchas</HI> the two Poles impo&s;ed by two Acts of the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of this pre&s;ent current Parliament, are now &s;et in Farm, and that it is of &s;pecial concern, for making the &s;aids Poles effectual, that the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Shires and others required by the &s;aids Acts, for making up the Li&s;ts, Rolls and Books of Per&s;ons, and returning of the &s;ame; Do diligently Meet and Attend, and Performe what is incumbent to them for <HI>Clearing,</HI> and for the more ea&s;ie rai&s;ing and levieing of the &s;aids Poles by Our &s;aids Farmers; We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, and conform to the reference made to them by the &s;aids Acts of Parliament, have Ordained, and hereby Ordains for the fir&s;t of the &s;aids Poles, the hail Commi&s;&s;ioners of the &s;everal Shires and Stew|artries within this Kingdom, re&s;iding within the &s;ame <HI>re&s;pective,</HI> to meet upon the &s;econd <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> of <HI>October</HI> next to come, at the ordinary place of their Meeting and there to &s;ubdivide the hail Bounds of the &s;aids Shires and Stewartries, among&s;t the Commi&s;&s;ioners re&s;iding for the pre&s;ent within the &s;ame, whether pre&s;ent at or ab&s;ent from the &s;aid Meeting, for making up the Li&s;ts of the poleable Per&s;ons, by vertue of the fore&s;aid Act, and that at &s;uch Places as they &s;hall appoint upon the fir&s;t <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> of <HI>November</HI> thereafter; and there to proceed in compleating the &s;aids Li&s;ts and Rolls of poleable Per&s;ons, and takeing in their &s;everal Degrees and Qualities in manner &s;pecified, in the &s;aid Act: And appoints Adverti&s;ement to be given to the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners re&s;iding within the &s;aid Shires and Stewarties timeou&s;ly by the &s;everal Shireffs and Stewarts or their Deputs, for their Meeting upon the &s;aid &s;econd <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> of <HI>October</HI> next, to the effect fore&s;aid; And like|wi&s;e, that Adverti&s;ement be timeou&s;ly given to the Commi&s;&s;ioners ab&s;ent and appointed to particular di&s;tricts, and that Intimation be made at the &s;everal Paroch Churches within the Shires a competent time of before of the particular places to which the poleable per&s;ons are to repair for giving in of their Degrees, Characters and Qualifications, according to which they are lyable in Polemony, under the pains contained in the Act of Parliament. And further, We with Advice fore&s;aid Require and Command the Magi&s;trats of Burghs, to meet upon the Days appointed by the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament; and to proceed in making up the Li&s;ts and Rolls of the per&s;ons poleable within their Burghs, and to make Intimation in manner above-mentioned; As al&s;o, We with Advice fore&s;aid, Command and Appoint the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;io|ners of Supplie, Magi&s;trats of Burghs and their re&s;pective Clerks, to compleat the fore&s;aids Rolls, and Li&s;ts of the poleable per&s;ons within their re&s;pective Bounds, and to tran&s;mit the &s;amen or an ab&s;tract thereof to the Lords of our The&s;aury, betwixt and the fir&s;t day of <HI>Decem|ber</HI> next, to the effect the &s;aids Li&s;ts and Rolls may be delivered by them to Our &s;aids Farmers, betwixt or upon the third <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> of <HI>De|cember</HI> next to come: And We with Advice fore&s;aid, do hereby certify the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners and Magi&s;trats <HI>re&s;pective</HI> fore&s;aid, if they &s;hall either fail to meet or attend the &s;aids Dayes for making up the &s;aids Li&s;ts and Rolls; or in tran&s;mitting the &s;ame or Ab&s;tracts thereof in the Terms of the Act of parliament, betwixt and the Day fore&s;aid, they &s;hall be conveened and proce&s;&s;ed before the Lords of Our privy Council at the in&s;tance of Our Advocat, &amp; of the &s;aids Tack&s;men for their Negligence in the premi&s;&s;es &amp; for Damnages, &amp; to be puni&s;hed for the &s;ame with all Severity; And We ordain the Chamberlains, Factors, Doers &amp; the Tutors and Curators of &s;uch of the &s;aids poleable per&s;ons as are Ab&s;ent, or Minors, to give np the re&s;pective Qualities and Degrees of the &s;aids per&s;ons ab&s;ent, or Minors, and make payment of their polemoney at the Dayes and under the Certifications and pains contained in the fore&s;aid Act of parliament: And la&s;tly, We with Advice fore&s;aid Declare, that all per|&s;ons lyable in polemoney by this pre&s;ent Act, &s;hall be obligid to give up upon Oath their Names, Qualities and Degrees, &amp; values of their E&s;tates, if required thereto at lea&s;t that it &s;hal be lei&s;ome &amp; competent to our &s;aids Tack&s;men to controle the Qualities, degrees &amp; Values of E&s;tates that &s;hal be given in by the Oath of the Ingiver thereof, if they think fit, for making the Ingivers thereof lyable for the &s;ingle Pole, Doubles or Qua|druples, according to the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament. <HI>O&V;R Will is herefore,</HI> and We charge you &s;trictly, and Command, that inconti|nent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> &amp; to the remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the hail Head-Burghs of the &s;eve|ral 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; And We Ordain our Solicitor to di&s;patch Copies hereof to the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewarts of Stewartries, and their Deputs, and Magi&s;trats of Burghs, or their Clerks, to be by them publi&s;hed at the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs, upon Receipt thereof, and immediatly &s;ent to the &s;everal Mini&s;ters, to the effect the &s;ame may be intimat and read at the &s;e|veral Paroch-Churches upon the Lords Day, at lea&s;t preceeding the &s;aid &s;econd <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> of <HI>October</HI> next to come: And Ordains Our So|licitor to tran&s;mit printed Copies of the &s;aid Act of Parliament, with this pre&s;ent Proclamation, to the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires, Stew|arts of Stewartries, and Magi&s;trats of Burghs, to be delivered to them, and made u&s;e of by them as they &s;hal find needful: And Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh <DATE><HI>the twentieth day of</HI> September, <HI>and of Our Reign the Tenth Year,</HI> 1698.</DATE></DATELINE>
<HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI>
<SIGNED>GILB. ELIOT. <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></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 King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1698.</P>
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