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<HEAD>ACT Anent Deficients of the Levy, one Thou&s;and, &s;ix Hundred and Ninety five.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE><HI>5th January,</HI> 1697.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THe Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council con&s;idering, That &s;everal of the Shires within this Kingdom have not furni&s;hed their Proportions of the Levy appointed by the Act of Parliament one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and ninety five; Have therefore appointed, and do hereby order and appoint the Sheriff of the Shires deficient as &s;aid is, and as they &s;hall be adverti&s;|ed by Sir <HI>Patrick Hume</HI> His Maje&s;ties Solicitor, by tran&s;mitting to them an Extract of this Act, with the particular Number of their deficient Men thereto &s;ubjoyn|ed, to conveen the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supplie within the &s;ame; and &s;ignify to them, that it is their Lord&s;hips perremptory Command, that they take an effectual Cour&s;e, for Fur|ni&s;hing and putting out their re&s;pective Numbers of Men wanting, with all Diligence: And that tho it may happen, that in &s;ome of the&s;e Shires, different Methods have been taken from the&s;e pre&s;cribed by the &s;aid Act of Parliament; yet they mu&s;t &s;till make good their Number: And if in the method of the &s;aid Act. Lots have been drawn for per&s;ons out of the Kingdom, which ought not to have been done, the&s;e liable in the re&s;pective Shires where the &s;ame was done, mu&s;t &s;upplie them, if not returned: And the &s;aids Commi&s;|&s;ioners are to deliver their Deficient Men to the Officers appointed, to receive them at the Head-Burgh of their Shire upon the re&s;pective days following, <HI>viz.</HI> For the Shires on this &s;ide of <HI>Tay,</HI> the twenty fifth of <HI>January</HI> in&s;tant, and for the Shires be north <HI>Tay,</HI> the tenth day of <HI>February</HI> thereafter. And farder, The &s;aid Sheriff and Commi&s;&s;ioners are to certify &s;uch as are liable to put out the &s;aid deficient Men within their Bounds, that if they failzie to do the &s;ame, the Lords of Council will decern them to pay the Sum of two hundred <HI>Merks</HI> for each Man deficient to the &s;aids Officers that &s;hould have received them; and that Letters upon a &s;imple Charge of &s;ix days, at the in&s;tance of His Maje&s;ties Solicitor, &s;hall be direct again&s;t them for that effect. And the Sheriffs and Commi&s;&s;ion|ers of Supply, in all Shires are hereby appointed to inquire diligently anent all De&s;erters, and whether any of the Men put forth by them be returned, and re&s;et within their Bounds; and for encouragement of &s;uch as &s;hall apprehend the&s;e De&s;erters, to be brought up with the &s;aid Deficients, at the fore&s;aid Day and Place; The Sheriffs are to give adverti&s;ement, that the Officers will be careful to pay them Liberally. As likewi&s;e they are to certify on the other hand, that all guilty of Re&s;et, &s;hall be pro&s;ecute for the paying of the hundred pounds, and other pains contained in the Proclamation of Coun|cil again&s;t Re&s;etters, of the date the fourth of <HI>April,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred ninety four with all Rigour. And the Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, do hereby Re|quire and Command the fore&s;aids Sheriffs to give an particular and exact Account of their Diligence in the Premi&s;&s;es to the Clerks of Council, betwixt and the twenty fifth day of <HI>February</HI> next to come, that further cour&s;e may be taken therein, as their Lord|&s;hips &s;hall judge needful for His Maje&s;ties Service; Certifying the &s;aids Sheriffs, that if they failzie in the Premi&s;&s;es, either as to due Returns, or exact Diligence, they &s;hall be Called and Conveened before the Privy Council, to be puni&s;hed according to their De|merit.</P>
<P>And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed, and to be tran&s;mitted bhe Solicitor to the &s;everal &s;hires.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Extracted by me</HI> GILB. ELIOT <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></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 His mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1697.</P>
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