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<HEAD>ARTICLES Concluded and agreed upon by the Society of the White-Writing and Printing paper Manufactory of <HI>Scotland,</HI> in a ge|neral Meeting at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>the Nineteen day of <HI>August</HI> One Thou&s;and Six Hundred and Ninty Five Years,</DATE> in the Terms whereof Partners are to be a&s;&s;um|ed.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PRimo,</HI> That the Stock already advanced for carrying on the &s;aid White paper Manufa|ctory, with what is yet to be Sub&s;cribed for, making up in whole <HI>five Thou&s;and Pound &s;tarling;</HI> and that the &s;ame be divided into Fourteen Hundred Shares: And that in re&s;pect of the great Charges and other Contingencies, which the Founders and tho&s;e who have already &s;ub&s;cribed have been put to, tho&s;e who &s;hall hereafter &s;ub&s;cribe are to make payment of <HI>four pound &s;tarling</HI> for each &s;hare, and that by and attour <HI>Fighteen &s;hilings &s;tarling</HI> of Sub&s;cription Money, which by the fir&s;t Articles was provided payable to <HI>Ni|cholas</HI>
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<PB N="2" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 40 --><HI>Dupin</HI> late Deput Governour of the Paper and Linnen Manufactories of <HI>Scotland, England,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and <HI>Denis Ma|nes</HI> E&s;quire, and is now a&s;&s;igned by them to the Joynt &s;tock, in re&s;pect of an Liquid Sum obliged to be payed to them, and which they have accepted of in &s;atisfaction for their &s;aid &s;ub&s;cription Money.</P>
<P N="2">2<HI>do.</HI> That all tho&s;e who &s;hall hereafter &s;ub&s;cribe as Partners &s;hall at the time of their re&s;pective &s;ub&s;criptions, pay in to <HI>Alex|ander Clark</HI> pre&s;ent The&s;aurer to the Company, <HI>One pound &s;ix &s;hilling eight pence sterling,</HI> as the ju&s;t equal third part of the fore|&s;aid &s;um of <HI>Four pound sterling</HI> for each &s;hare, that they &s;hall happen to &s;ub&s;cribe for, together al&s;o with the fore&s;aid &s;um of <HI>Eighteen &s;hilling sterlings</HI> of Sub&s;cription Money for each &s;hare they &s;hall happen to &s;ub&s;cribe for, or to any other The&s;aurer who &s;hall hereafter be named by pluralitie of Votes of the Gene|ral Meeting for receiving thereof, and the remaining two parts of the &s;aids &s;hares, to be payed to the &s;aid <HI>Alexander Clark</HI> or his Succe&s;&s;ors in Office, how &s;oon and when&s;oever the &s;ame &s;hall be judged nece&s;&s;ary by the General Meeting, or a Committee of &s;even per&s;ons to be cho&s;en out of their Number for that effect; and that upon twenty one days Adverti&s;ement, to be given by the The&s;aurer for the time being, to the &s;ub&s;cribers per&s;onally, or at their dwelling places, if they be Re&s;identers in <HI>Scotland,</HI> and to the Agents Re&s;identers in <HI>Edinburgh</HI> for &s;uch Engli&s;hmen, or Re|&s;identers in <HI>England</HI> as have already &s;ub&s;cribed, or &s;hall hereaf|ter &s;ub&s;cribe as Partners, and who &s;hall be payed by the Engli&s;h Sub&s;cribers, and upon their paying in of the fir&s;t Moety with the &s;ub&s;cription Money as a fore&s;aid, and &s;ub&s;cribing the Articles here ingro&s;&s;ed, the &s;aid <HI>Alexander</HI>'s Receipt thereof to be pro|duced at an General Meeting at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> &s;hall give the &s;ub&s;cri|bers as full Intere&s;t in the &s;aid Manufactory effeiring to their &s;hares, as if they had originally &s;ub&s;cribed the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="3">3<HI>tio.</HI> That albeit the fir&s;t Moety and &s;ub&s;cription Money a|fore&s;aid be payed in by the &s;ub&s;cribers, yet if they &s;hall hereafter
<PB N="3" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 40 -->fail to pay in like manner the remaining part of their &s;hares, they &s;hall be &s;ubject and lyable to pay <HI>Three &s;hilling sterling</HI> Monthly for each third part of the &s;hare whereof they &s;hall happen to fail in making due payment being required as afore&s;aid: And in ca&s;e they fail for the &s;pace of three Months thereafter to make payment of the &s;aids remaining &s;hares and penalty, then &amp; in that ca&s;e their re&s;pective &s;hares is to be di&s;po&s;ed of by the fore&s;aid &s;o|ciety for the u&s;e of the Stock; and they are in all time thereafter to forfeit and amit any intere&s;t therein.</P>
<P N="4">4<HI>to.</HI> That there &s;hall be two Books prepared by <HI>Robert Hen|der&s;on</HI> our pre&s;ent Clark, or Secretary to the &s;ociety, and his &s;uc|ce&s;&s;ors in Office, who are to be cho&s;en at the General Meeting of the Company, in which all the Actings are to be Recorded; one whereof is to be &s;till retained by him&s;elf while he is in the Of|fice at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and thereafter delivered up with the grounds and warrands thereof to his Succe&s;&s;or in Office, and the other thereof to be delivered by him to any per&s;on whom tho&s;e who Re&s;ide in <HI>England</HI> do intru&s;t therewith, to the effect that from time to time the Partners in <HI>England,</HI> may be by him certiorat of the proceedings of the Company: And which Clerk and per|&s;on Intru&s;ted by the&s;e in <HI>England</HI> are to be obliged not to remove the&s;e Books out of the Kingdom without warrand from the Com|pany, under the penalty of <HI>One hundred pounds sterling,</HI> each.</P>
<P N="5">5<HI>to.</HI> That no advantage &s;hall be taken of &s;urvivancy, but that the &s;hare or &s;hares of the party or parties Decea&s;ed &s;hall fall and belong to their Heirs and Executors, and al&s;o that he or they &s;hall have liberty to &s;ell and di&s;po&s;e thereupon to any per&s;on or per&s;ons who will give mo&s;t for the &s;ame; and their A&s;&s;igneys &s;hall bruik and enjoy the &s;ame priviledges and Emoluments as their Authors might have done, they always producing their a&s;&s;igna|tions &amp; di&s;po&s;itions thereto at the fir&s;t or &s;econd General Meeting after the purcha&s;e, which are to be recorded in the Regi&s;ters or Trans&s;er. Books of the Company.</P>
<P N="6">6<HI>to.</HI> That at the fir&s;t General Meeting every year there &s;hall be cho&s;en by plurality of Votes Thirteen per&s;ons of their own num|ber,
<PB N="4" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 41 -->who &s;hall have power to nominate and choi&s;e and <HI>Pre&s;es</HI> or <HI>Chairman</HI> to the Meeting for the en&s;uing year out of the &s;aid Thir|teen, whereof always the principal Agent for the Engli&s;h and Re&s;i|denters in <HI>England</HI> is to be one if he be pre&s;ent, &amp; which Thirteen whereof &s;even is declared to be ane <HI>Quorum</HI> the <HI>Pre&s;es</HI> always be|ing one of them by plurality of Votes are to order &amp; determine in all their Meetings anent the Affaires relating to the Company, &amp; to make all Contracts &amp; Bargains relative thereto, &amp; to give all nece&s;|&s;ary orders to the The&s;aurer for debur&s;ements, and which Thir|teen are to pa&s;s under the name of the <HI>Common Council or A&s;&s;i&s;t|ants to the Company:</HI> As al&s;o the General Meeting is to make choice of Five per&s;ons out of the &s;aid Thirteen (the Pre&s;es or Chairman and the Agent for the Re&s;identers in <HI>England</HI> being al|ways two of them) as a Committee of Trade, and whereof any two with the Pre&s;es are to be an <HI>Quorum</HI> (the &s;aid Agent being likewayes adverti&s;ed of the Meetting) and which Committee and their <HI>Quorum</HI> &s;hall have power, and are Authorized, to keep corre&s;pondence betwixt the Engli&s;h Partners and them, anent the Patterns and &s;ale of Paper, and to &s;ettle and agree upon the man|ner of remitting the Money ari&s;ing either from the product of the Joynt Stock or Sub&s;criptions in <HI>England,</HI> to the The&s;aurer of the Company that pre&s;ently is or that &s;hall happen to be at <HI>Edin|burgh,</HI> for the time and which Committee are al&s;o to be warrant|ed and impowered in ca&s;e any of the Sub&s;cribers do not pay in their &s;hares as a fore&s;aid, to &s;ell the &s;ame to any other per&s;on at the &s;ame price, as they were fir&s;t &s;u&s;cribed for, &s;uch Purcha&s;ers and all other &s;ingular Succe&s;&s;ors being always &s;ubject to the whole Laws and Acts of the Company already made or to be made.</P>
<P N="7">7<HI>mo.</HI> That the four general meettings of the Company be kept at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> annually upon the dayes following <HI>viz.</HI> The fir&s;t dyet upon the fir&s;t Munday of <HI>November,</HI> the &s;econd upon the fir&s;t Munday of <HI>February,</HI> the Thirdupon the fir&s;t Munday of <HI>May,</HI> and the Fourth upon the Fir&s;t Munday of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and that in ca&s;e the fore&s;aid A&s;&s;i&s;tants find it nece&s;&s;ary to have general meetings kept more frequently, or upon other dayes, that then the &s;ame
<PB N="5" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 41 -->&s;hall proceed and be holden Intimation thereof being given to all Parties concerned by affixing placads upon the Mercat Cro&s;s and Exchange of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and upon the Entry's to the Exchange at <HI>London,</HI> bearing the day upon which the meeting is to begin, and that Twenty dayes before the &s;ame, to the effect tho&s;e Con|cerned in the Scots white-writting-Paper Company may give timous In&s;tructions to their Agent or Agents re&s;iding at <HI>Edin|burgh</HI> there anent.</P>
<P N="8">8<HI>vo,</HI> That the The&s;aurer to the Company at pre&s;ent and in time coming &s;hall be obliged to make their Accounts once every four Months anent what they have received in, what they have payed out, what debt is due to the company, by whom, &amp; where Lodged, &amp; upon what &s;ecurity, &amp; what is in their hands of Money and effects. As al&s;o by advice of the plurality of the Engli&s;h Sub|&s;cribers ane Ca&s;h-keeper or The&s;aurer in <HI>England,</HI> is to be appoin|ted who may receive in the Effects of the Manufactorie and Pro|duct thereof, and Money of the Several Sub&s;cribers there and be obliged to hold Count for, and remit the &s;ame to the The&s;aur|er of the &s;aid Office in Scotland once every three Months, and both of them are to give &s;ufficient Security for that Effect.</P>
<P N="9">9<HI>no.</HI> At all general Meetings of the Company each Party if pre&s;ent (or his Agent if ab&s;ent) &s;hall have on Vote for ilk five Shares he &s;ub&s;cribes for but in Committies they are only to have one Vote what ever their Intere&s;t be,</P>
<P N="10">10<HI>mo.</HI> The Books for receiving in of Sub&s;cribers are not to be clo&s;ed untill the whole Fourteen Hundred &s;hares be filled up without con&s;ent of the plurality of Votes at a general Meet|ing.</P>
<P N="11">11<HI>mo.</HI> That no Sub&s;criber &s;hall have liberty to &s;ub&s;cribe for more than Twenty &s;hares, without an Act of the general Meetting.</P>
<P N="12">12<HI>mo.</HI> That the Milnes &s;hall be Built and all Expences defrayed out of the Stock of the Company: As al&s;o the buying of Rags and all other materials nece&s;&s;ary and the hyring of work men and mantenance of them and Prentices fit for the work, but it being already determin'd by &s;uch of the Company
<PB N="6" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 42 -->who have already Sub&s;cribed, that there &s;hall be two Milnes in|&s;tantly Built, whereof one at <HI>Ye&s;ter</HI> and another near <HI>Edinburgh</HI> whereof the &s;aids <HI>Nicholas Dupin,</HI> and <HI>Denis Manes,</HI> are to have the over&s;ight, in re&s;pect of the &s;ub&s;cription Money allowed to them by the former Articles, and liquid &s;ums now promitted to be payed to them in lieu thereof, the &s;aid <HI>Nicholas Dupin</HI> and <HI>Denis Manes,</HI> are to attend the Building of the &s;aids Milnes, and to over&s;ee the buying of all materials fit for the &s;ame on their own proper Charges, the Work Men and Materials being all payed out of the joynt Stock as afore&s;aid, and to teach Prentices the Art of making the &s;aid Paper, and not to de&s;ert the work untill the&s;e Prentices be able to manage the &s;ame, and teach others &s;o to doe, conform to an Contract pa&s;t betwix the &s;aids <HI>Nicholas Dupin,</HI> and <HI>Denis Manes</HI> on the one part, and an Committie of the &s;aid company authorized for that Effect on the other part</P>
<P N="13">13<HI>tio.</HI> In ca&s;e any difference ari&s;e anent the carrying on of the &s;aid work and managing of the Stock, the &s;ame is to be determined by plurality of Votes of all the whole Proprietors or their Agents who are pre&s;ent at the fir&s;t generall Meeting there after.</P>
<P N="14">14<HI>to.</HI> That it &s;hall be in the power of the Proprietors or their Agents, by plurality of Votes to make &s;uch Laws for the Government of the &s;aid Paper Manufactorie as they &s;hall think expedient at any Generall meeting, providing they be not repug|nant to, or Incon&s;i&s;tent with the General Laws of this Kingdom.</P>
<P><HI>La&s;tly.</HI> That whoever &s;hall &s;ub&s;cribe and take Share in the &s;aid Manufactorie, or who &s;hall Suceed there to buy any title what&s;omever &s;hall be &s;ubject and lyable to all the Rules of the Societie made or to be made.</P>
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<HEAD>Here followes a Li&s;t of the Members who have al|ready Sub&s;cribed to the above Articles.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>JOHN Marquis of <HI>Tweeddale</HI> Lord High Commi&s;&s;ioner of <HI>Scotland</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George</HI> Lord Vi&s;count of <HI>Tarbat.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>James Stewart</HI> His Maje&s;tes <HI>Advocat.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>George Campbel</HI> Knight,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Alexander Clark</HI> Marchant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Andrew Barclay</HI> Writter.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Andrew John&s;ton of</HI> Knock hill,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Andrew Duffe</HI> Merchant,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Archibald Scot</HI> Merchant'</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>David Robert&s;on</HI> Writter,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Denis Manes</HI> E&s;quire.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Francis Borie,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Bell.</HI> Merchant</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Law&s;on</HI> Merchant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Livings;ton</HI> Merchant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Mo&s;man</HI> Book Seller,</ITEM>
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<HI>Herman Le Dru,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr <HI>James Bailie</HI> Writter to His Maje&s;ties Signet</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>James Hamilton</HI> Merchant,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>James Montgomery</HI> Merchant at <HI>Gla&s;gow,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>James Stephans</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>James Young</HI> Writter,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>John Buchan</HI> Advocat,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>John Dick&s;on Secretary to</HI> the Lord Chancellor,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>John, Inglis</HI> Writter to His Maje&s;ties Signet,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Learmond</HI> Merchant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Lethem</HI> Smith,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>John Mein&yogh;eis</HI> Advocat,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Raitt</HI> Merchant,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Trotter</HI> Merchant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Laurence Wright</HI> Writter,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mrs. <HI>Mary Flood</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nicholas Dupin,</HI> E&s;quire,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Patrick Farmer</HI> Merchant</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Piter La Fite</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Hender&s;on,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Butler</HI> E&s;quire</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Noake</HI> Merchant,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Shelton</HI> Linnen Draper,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Spence</HI> Writter,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Hume</HI> Ma&s;ter of the Gray Paper Mill at <HI>Ayton'</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Willam Spence</HI> Warden to His Maje&s;ties Mint,</ITEM>
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