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</FIGURE>ACT, Anent the Deficients in the la&s;t Levy.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> <DATE>the thirteenth Day of <HI>December,</HI> 1694.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THE Lords of Their Maje&s;ties Privy Council, Do hereby Ordain Their Maje&s;ties Sollicitor, to tran&s;mit to the Sheriffs of the Shires and Stewarts of the Stewartries within this Kingdom, or their Deputs or Clerks, &s;uch Li&s;ts of the D<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ficients of the New Levy, as have come to his hands; and where no Li&s;ts &s;hall be &s;ent by the Sollicitor, Ordains the &s;aids Sheriffs, and Stewarts and their Deputs, and Clerks of Supply, to make up full and exact Li&s;ts of the &s;aids Deficients, and to tran&s;mit Doubles thereof to their Maje&s;ties Sollicitor, within fifteen Days, after this Act &s;hall come to their hands; And al&s;o Ordains the re&s;pective Sheriffs, Stewarts of Stewartries, and Bailies of Bailiaries within this King|dom, and their Deputes, within the &s;aid &s;pace of fifteen days after this Act comes to their hands, to exact and uplift from the per&s;ons lyable in putting out any Men of the New Levy; and who have not put out the&s;e Men before the fir&s;t day of <HI>November</HI> la&s;t, the Pe|nalty of two hundred Merks, wherein every &s;uch per&s;on is lyable, conform to the Proclamations and In&s;tructions thereanent. And the &s;aids Lords Do hereby Authorize and Warrand the &s;aid Sheriffs, Stewarts, Baillies of Bailliaries and their Deputs, either to call a Party of their Maje&s;ties Forces, from any Commander within the Shire, Stewartrie, or Bailliary: And Ordains the &s;aids Comman|ders to furni&s;h Parties to them, for poynding of the per&s;ons Fail&yogh;iers and Deficient, as &s;aid is, before the &s;aid fir&s;t day of <HI>November</HI> la&s;t, or otherwi&s;e to make u&s;e of their own Officers, for that end, and Declares that the per&s;ons Deficient, as &s;aid is, are to be poinded in manner pre&s;cribed by the Act of Parliament One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty nine, anent the Militia, and the expen&s;e of the poynd|ing is to be exacted from them accordingly. And the &s;aids Lords Do hereby Ordain the &s;aids Sheriffs, Stewarts and Baillies, and their Deputs, to pay, or cau&s;e pay in the Penalties to be exacted and uplifed by them, to the Collector of Supply within the Shire, and Ordains the Collector to tran&s;mit the one halfe of the&s;e Penalties to the General Receiver of their Maje&s;ties Crown Rents, to be applyed towards the perfecting the Geographical Mapps of this Kingdom, and the other half to be di&s;po&s;ed of by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Shire, for the publick U&s;es within the &s;ame, (the &s;aid Collector retaining always the twentieth penny for his pains) with Certi|fication to the &s;aid Sheriffs, Stewarts, Baillies and their Deputs and Clerks, and Collectors of Supply re&s;pective who &s;hall fail&yogh;ie, in di&s;charge of any part of their Duty &s;pecified in this Act, that they &s;hall be lyable for the Penalties of the&s;e Deficients whom they &s;hould have Li&s;ted, and Poynded, and who&s;e Penalties they &s;hould have Collected, and tran&s;mitted as above appointed; And that Letters of Horning &s;hall be direct, for charging them for payment thereof <HI>&s;impliciter.</HI> And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed, and appoints their Maje&s;ties Sollicitor to &s;end Printed Copies of the &s;ame, to the Sheriffs, Stewarts, Baillies, or their Deputs, or Clerks, with all convenient diligence.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Extracted by me GILB: ELIOT, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD <HI>Save King</HI> VVilliam <HI>and Queen</HI> Mary.</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 Their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1694.</P>
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