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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, For the better Inbringing of the Pole-Money, <HI>Impo&s;ed in Anno</HI> 1695.</HEAD>
<P>_WILLIAM by the Grace of GOD, King of Great Britain, <HI>France</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <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 conjun|ctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, greeting; Fora&s;muchas, by the <HI>Act</HI> pa&s;t in the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of Our currant Parliament, Entituled, <HI>Act for Pole-money</HI> appointing the Li&s;ts and Rolls of Poleable Per&s;ons to be made and recorded, in manner therein expre&s;t; it is al&s;o ordered, that an Ab&s;tract thereof &s;hould be &s;ent to the Lords of The&s;aury, between and the fir&s;t of this in&s;tant Month of <HI>October,</HI> which day is now pa&s;t; and &s;eing the &s;aid day neither was, nor could be ob&s;erved, becau&s;e of the latene&s;s of the pre&s;ent Harve&s;t, and the broken and uncertain Weather of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Sea&s;on: Therefore VVe, With advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, have thought fit to prorogat, a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> hereby prorogates the &s;aid day to the fir&s;t of <HI>November</HI> next, Ordaining the fore&s;aid Ab&s;tracts to be &s;ent into the Lords of our The&s;aury, betwixt and that day, as if the fir&s;t of <HI>November,</HI> in place of the fir&s;t of <HI>October</HI> had been &s;et down in the fore&s;aid <HI>Act of Parliament.</HI> And to the effect that the Orders contained in the late proclamation of Our Pri|vy Council, for Collecting the &s;aid <HI>Pole-money</HI> may be the better ob&s;erved, and the Collectors for Shires and Paroches therein-mentioned more encouraged, VVe have farder thought fit, with Advice fore&s;aid, to allow for the payment of the &s;aids Collectors Five <HI>per Cent.</HI> of their re&s;pective Collections, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> wit, Three <HI>per Cent:</HI> to the Collectors for Paroches, and Two <HI>per Cent.</HI> to the Collectors of Shires, in manner pre&s;cribed in the former Proclamation. And becau&s;e there is a General Que&s;tion ari&s;en, anent the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ole of Mini&s;ters, whe|ther they be only to pay the &s;ingle Pole of <HI>&s;ix pence,</HI> or to be reckoned in the Cla&s;s of, and pay as Gentlemen: It is hereby declared, with Advice fore&s;aid, that all Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pel within this Kingdom, are to be reckoned in the Cla&s;s of, and to pay as Gentlemen. And becau&s;e it is informed that &s;everal Heretors refu&s;e to give up Li&s;ts, and to make the Divi&s;ion among&s;t their Tennents of their valued Rent, conform to the Tennents re&s;pective Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, in manner pre&s;cribed by the <HI>Act of Parliament,</HI> alledging it &s;ufficient that they, the Heretors pay for their re&s;pective valued Rent <HI>in Cumulo.</HI> As likewi&s;e, that Elders refu&s;e to give up Li&s;ts, in manner pre&s;cribed by the fore&s;aid <HI>Act of Parliament,</HI> and Proclamation of Council. And far|der that the Tutors and Curators of Minors refu&s;e to give an account upon Oath, of the value of their Pu|pils and Minors moveable E&s;tates, in manife&s;t defraud of the fore&s;aid <HI>Pole:</HI> Therefore VVe, with advice fore&s;aid, do hereby Ordain, that in all and every of the &s;aid Ca&s;es, the per&s;ons refu&s;ing as &s;aid is, &s;hal be ly|able to be charged with Horning, to give due Obedience: and that Letters be rai&s;ed at Our Sollicitors in|&s;tance, and put in the hands of the re&s;pective Collectors of Supply, in the &s;everal Shires, to be by them due|ly execute, upon Our Expen&s;es, as they will be an&s;werable. And becau&s;e that in &s;ome Paroches, there may be but one or no re&s;iding Heretor, nor Commi&s;&s;ioner to take up Li&s;ts within the &s;ame and execute the other Orders, conform to Our former Proclamation; Therefore in &s;uch Ca&s;es, VVe here <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> allow and ordain the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Shires within which the &s;aids Paroches lyes, to nominat and appoint an &s;ub&s;tantial Man or two, within the &s;aids Paroches, to take up the fore&s;aid Li&s;ts, and execute the other Orders, proper for Com|mi&s;&s;ioners of Paroches, mentioned in the former Proclamation. Our VVill is herefore and we charge you &s;trictly, and command, that in continent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Merc<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and to the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the whole Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> cries within this King|dom, and there, in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Intimation hereof, that none may pretend ignorance: And Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the third day of</HI> October, <HI>and of Our Reign the &s;eventh Year,</HI> 1695.</DATE></DATELINE>
<HI>Ex Deliberation Dominorum Sti. Concilij.</HI> 
<SIGNED>GILB. ELIOT, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilij.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> by the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> and Succe&s;&s;ours of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His most <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>1695.</HI></P>
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