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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, For Rouping the Exci&s;e of Malt, Ale, and Strong-waters.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE>September 17. 1689.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe Lords of His Majesties Privy Council Taking to their Con&s;ideration, That the Exci&s;e upon Malt, Ale, and Strong-Waters, of the Shires of <HI>Perth, Aberdene, Bamff, Elgine, Nairn, Inverne&s;s, Suther|land, Ro&s;s, Caithne&s;s, Crommarty, Wigtoun, Dum|freis, Boot, Striviling, Dumbartoun, Renfrew, Air, La|nerk, Berwick,</HI> and <HI>Stewartry</HI> of <HI>Kirkcudbright,</HI> and Towns within the &s;ame, now under Tack, doth at, and up|on the la&s;t day of <HI>October</HI> en&s;uing, Expire and run out; &s;o that thereby that Branch of His Majesties Revenue, is again to be Set in Farm, and for that effect, it being re|qui&s;it and needful, that a day and place be prefixed, for Roup|ing thereof, whereby all Per&s;ons who &s;hall happen to be Far|mers, may have timous Adverti&s;ement thereof: Therefore the Lords of Privy Council have Appointed, and do hereby Appoint, the twenty ninth Day of the &s;aid Moneth of <HI>Octo|ber</HI> next, betwixt ten and twelve in the forenoon, in the <HI>Exchequer-Hou&s;e,</HI> for Rouping and Setting in Farm the &s;aid Exci&s;e, of all Malt, Ale, Strong-Waters, and others mentioned in the former Tack thereof, that &s;hall happen to be Browen, Vented, and &s;old within the re&s;pective Shires and Stuartries above-mentioned, and Towns therein, from, and after the &s;aid la&s;t of <HI>October.</HI> And to the end, that all &s;uch per&s;ons who intend to make offer for a Farm of the &s;aid Ex|ci&s;e, may have timous Notice hereof, Do Ordain the Ma|cers of Exchequer, to Publi&s;h the &s;ame at the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and that Me&s;&s;engers at Arms Proclaim it at the Mercat-Cro&s;ses of the Head-Burghs of the Shires above &s;pecified. And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.
<HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
<HI>GOD Save King</HI> WILLIAM <HI>and Queen</HI> MARY.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> by Order of Privy Council, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1689.</P>
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