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</FIGURE>ACT Anent the Half <HI>Ducatdouns</HI> and Old <HI>Scots Merk</HI>-pieces.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>July 25. 1695.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_FORASM&V;CH as, by a Proclamation of the Date the twelfth Day of <HI>July</HI> Currant; the Rate of the <HI>Ducatdouns</HI> was Rai&s;ed to Three Pound Fourteen &s;hilling, and the <HI>Scots</HI> Four <HI>Merk</HI>-piece, and &s;undry other Species of Money, with their Halfs and Quarters Proportionally, were Declared and Ordained to be Currant at the Rates therein-mentioned, and all Per&s;ons obliged to Receive the &s;ame in all Payments what&s;omever, at the &s;aid Value, as the Currant Coyn of this Kingdom; And &s;eing &s;undry of His Maje&s;ties Leidges, either through Ignorance, or Mi&s;take, do &s;cruple and demur to receive the Half <HI>Ducatdouns</HI> at the proportional Value fore&s;aid; and the old <HI>Scots Merk</HI>-pieces at the Value and Rate of the Quarter-pieces of the <HI>Scots</HI> four <HI>Merk</HI>-piece, whereby many of the Meaner &s;ort of People are there|by Prejudged: And the Obedience due to His Maje&s;ties Commands and Intention, for having the &s;aid old <HI>Merks</HI> Currant, at the Rate and Value of the Quarter-pieces of the &s;aid four <HI>Merk</HI> neglected: Therefore the Lords of His Ma|je&s;ties Privy Council, Declare the half <HI>Ducatdouns</HI> to be Currant at the Value of One Pound &s;eventeen &s;hilling <HI>Scots;</HI> &amp; the old <HI>Scots Merks,</HI> to be Currant at the Value of the Quar|ter of the <HI>Scots</HI> four <HI>Merk</HI>-pieces; and Ordains the &s;ame to be Received in all payments accordingly, &amp; that Conform to the fore&s;aid Proclamation in all Points. And Ordains thir Pre&s;ents to be Printed and Publi&s;hed at the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and other places needfull.</P>
<CLOSER><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 His mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1695.</P>
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