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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> For the better Collecting and Inbringing of what is deficient of the <HI>Pole-Money</HI> Impo&s;ed in <HI>Anno 1695.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WILLIAM by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, 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: Fora&s;much as by the Tenth Act of the Fifth Se&s;&s;ion of Our current Parliament, Impo&s;ing the Pole-Money therein-contained, Methods and Rules were pre&s;cribed for Uplifting and Bringing in the &s;ame; Likeas, the Lords of Our privy Council are thereby Impowered to Order and Appoint &s;uch further Methods and Cour&s;es as they &s;hall judge fit, for Stating and Inbringing of the &s;aid Pole-Money. In pur&s;uance of which Act, the Lords of Our privy Council, have from time to time, made &s;everal Acts, and emitted &s;everal Proclamations, for the more effectual Up|lifting and Inbringing the &s;aid Pole-Money, as the &s;aids Acts and Proclamations in them&s;elves more fully proport. And in regard the fore&s;aid Pole-Money, which was then in Collection, is now Set in Tack to <HI>John Campbell</HI> of <HI>Knockrioch,</HI> principal Tack&s;man, and his Partners, for the Duty, and in the Terms therein-mentioned, whereby they have Right to the fore&s;aid Pole-Money, and Act of Parlia|ment Impo&s;ing the &s;ame, as al&s;o to the haill Quadruples, and other Penalties Incurred for not payment thereof. And it being ju&s;t and rea&s;onable, that they &s;hould have the Benefit of the fore&s;aid haill Acts and Proclamations concerning the &s;aid Pole-Money, for making the &s;aid Tack effectual: Therefore, We with Advice of the Lords of Our privy Council, Do hereby Declare, that Our &s;aid Tack&s;men have the Benefit of the fore&s;aid haill Acts and Proclamations, in &s;o far as not Obeyed and Execute, Allowing the &s;ame to be put to fur|der Execution by them, for the more effectual Ingathering of the &s;aid Pole-Money, with the Quadruples, and other Penalties Incurred, to the effect, that all that have not as yet Obtempered, may know their Hazard, and do what is incumbent for their Exoneration. And We with Advice fore&s;aid, Do further Require and Command all Collectors of Shires and Paroches, who have not done their Duty in the premi&s;&s;es, by making up and delivering in exact Li&s;ts, and by collecting and paying in the &s;aid Pole-Money to Our &s;aid Tack&s;men, that they be careful to do the &s;ame within Fifteen Days after the publication hereof at the Mercat-Cro&s;s of the re&s;pective Head-Burghs of the Shires and Stewartries within which they Live; Certifying &s;uch of the &s;aids Collectors as &s;hall Fail&yogh;ie herein, that they &s;hall Amit and Lo&s;e their Allowances given to them <HI>re&s;pective</HI> by Our &s;aids Proclamations, Out of the Pole-Money uplifted and not payed in by them, betwixt and the Day fore&s;aid: As likeways, We with Advice fore&s;aid, Require and Command the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply, and others appointed in the &s;everal Paroches by them, and their Clerks, to give up to Our &s;aid Tack&s;men or Collectors appointed by them, the Bonds and Securities gran|ted by the &s;aids Collectors, for performing their duty in the Premi&s;&s;es; Declaring, that Our &s;aid Tack&s;men &s;hall have &s;iklike Execution competent thereon, as was before competent to the Lords of Our The&s;aury, or others by them appointed, to oblige and compel the fore&s;aid Collectors to Performance, whom we hereby Require to make Compt, Reckoning, and payment of the Pole-Money uplifted by them, to Our &s;aid Tack&s;men and their Collectors betwixt and the Day fore&s;aid, under the Certification above-mentioned: And farder, We with Advice fore&s;aid, Require and Command the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply within the &s;everal Shires, and all other Magi&s;trats of this Kingdom within their re&s;pective Juri&s;dictions, or any one of them, Judges Con&s;titute by the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament for that Effect, to give pre&s;ent and &s;peedy Ju&s;tice again&s;t all Per&s;ons within their re&s;pective Bounds, that &s;hall be Conveened and Convict before them, as Defficient of the fore&s;aid Pole-Money, or being unduely Cla&s;&s;ed; by Decerning them to make payment to Our &s;aid Tack&s;men or their Collectors of the fore&s;aid Quadruples; for payment whereof, all Diligence and Execution appointed by the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament, and former Pro|clamations, is to be pro&s;ecute with all Rigour: It is always thereby provided, that where Books or Li&s;ts are already given in, either by Shires or Paroches, as was Appointed by the fore&s;aid Proclamations, it &s;hall not be Lei&s;um to the &s;aid Tack&s;men, or their Collectors, to Trouble any per&s;ons Lyable in Pole-Money, by Citation or other ways, except &s;uch only as they &s;hall Fir&s;t give up in Roll to the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;i|oners of Supply, or other Judges ordained by Act of Parliament, as either Deficient in payment, or not given up in any former Li&s;t, or not duely Li&s;ted; In which Ca&s;e allenarly, and no other, the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, or other Judges fore&s;aids are Required to I&s;&s;ue out Pre|cepts for Citation and Proce&s;s, and Admini&s;ter Ju&s;tice as above: And farder, if the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners or other Judges, &s;hall find the fore&s;aid Tack&s;men, or their Collectors to be Calumnious in the &s;aid Pur&s;utes, they are to Fine them in the Parties Expen&s;e and Damnadges: And al&s;o to be Careful that the &s;aid Tack&s;men, or their Collectors, do not Oppre&s;s the Countrey in the Execution of the Premi&s;&s;es in any Sort; But that in the ca&s;e of any Complaint of Oppre&s;&s;ion, they Admini&s;ter Ju&s;tice to the Oppre&s;&s;ed as accords: And La&s;tly, We Or|dain Letters to be Direct hereupon in Form as effeirs. <HI>Our Will is herefore,</HI> And We Charge you &s;trictly, and Command, that Incon|tinent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the haill Head-Burghs of the &s;e|veral Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom; And there in Our Name and Authority, make Intimation hereof, that none may pretend Ignorance; 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 Eighteenth Day of</HI> March, <HI>And of Our Reign the Eight Year</HI> 1697.</DATE></DATELINE>
<HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI>
<SIGNED><HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave 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> 1697.</P>
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