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<HEAD>ACT OF MAINTENANCE.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>At</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the third day of</HI> February, <HI>The yeer of God one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and fourty nine yeers.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THE E&s;tates of Parliament, now pre&s;ently conveened in this &s;econd Se&s;sion of the &s;econd Trienniall Parliament by vertue of an Act of the Committee of E&s;tates, who had power and Authority from the la&s;t Parliament for conveening the Parliament, Con&s;idering the dangers now threatening Religion, the Covenant, and the peace of thir Kingdoms, And that they are thereby nece&s;&s;itate to keep up the For|ces within this Kingdom, and to provide for their entertainment; Have therefore thought fit to proro|gate and continue the monethly Maintenance, as it was impo&s;ed upon the &s;aid Kingdom, by vertue of an Act of the Committee of E&s;tates of the 3. of <HI>November</HI> la&s;t by-pa&s;t 1648. years, for one moneth after the moneth of <HI>Ianuary</HI> contained in the former Act. Whilk moneth &s;hall begin upon the fir&s;t day of <HI>February</HI> in&s;tant, and continue till the fir&s;t day of <HI>March</HI> next to come, with a deduction of the ju&s;t third part of the &s;aid monethly Maintenance, whilk was formerly e&s;tabli&s;hed, Save that the &s;aids Shires and Burghs &s;hall be onely lyable in payment of the two part of the Maintenance formerly impo&s;ed up|on them for the &s;aid moneth of <HI>February,</HI> Whilk two part &s;hall be payed by them without any de|duction or defalcation: And therefore Statutes and Ordains, That ilk Burgh and Shire within this Kingdom, are and &s;hall be lyable, and obliged in payment of the particular &s;ums of money under-written for the &s;aid moneth of <HI>February,</HI> And that betwixt and the 15. day of <HI>February</HI> in&s;tant, And Ordains the &s;ame to be payed, to Sir <HI>Iames Stewart,</HI> Prove&s;t of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Trea&s;urer of the Army, and Collector-Generall of the &s;aid Maintenance, or his Deputies, or &s;ub-Collectors: And that the &s;ums to be payed by the &s;everall Shires and Burghs, be as follows: <HI>viz.</HI> The Sheriffdom of <HI>Orkney</HI> of moneth|ly pay, 1143. Merks. <HI>Innernes</HI> 4176. M. <HI>Caithnes</HI> 945. M. <HI>Cromartie</HI> 99. M. <HI>Sutherland</HI> 423. M. <HI>Nairne</HI> 315. M. <HI>Elgine</HI> 1890. M. <HI>Aberdeen</HI> 6543. M. <HI>Bamff</HI> 1431. M. <HI>Kincairdin</HI> 1566. M. <HI>Forfar</HI> 5004. M. <HI>Perth</HI> 8001. M. <HI>Fyfe</HI> 6642. M. <HI>Stirling</HI> 2538. m. <HI>Kin|ro&s;e</HI> 144. m. <HI>Clackmannan</HI> 522. m. <HI>Edinburgh</HI> 4167. m. <HI>Linlithgow</HI> 1746. m. <HI>Hadingtoun</HI> 3384. m. <HI>Berwick</HI> 3555. m. <HI>Roxburgh</HI> 5778. m. <HI>Selkirk</HI> 1278. m. <HI>Peebles</HI> 1638. m. <HI>Lanerk</HI> 5382. m. <HI>Air</HI> 6066. m. <HI>Wigtoun</HI> and <HI>Kirkcudbright</HI> 4374. m. <HI>Dumfreis</HI> 4446. m. <HI>Renfrew</HI> 2205. m. <HI>Dumbartan</HI> 1233. m. <HI>Argyle</HI> 2907. m. <HI>Bute</HI> 459. m. Follows the &s;ums payable monethly by the Burghs, conform to their taxt Roll: viz. <HI>Edinburgh</HI> 5175. m. <HI>Perth</HI> 810. m. <HI>Dundee</HI> 1200. m. <HI>Aberdeen</HI> 1260. m. <HI>Stirling</HI> 240. m. <HI>Linlith|gow</HI> 324. m. St. <HI>Andrews</HI> 780. m. <HI>Gla&s;gow</HI> 1530. m. <HI>Air</HI> 342. m. <HI>Hadingtoun</HI> 324. m. <HI>Day&s;ert</HI> 270. m. <HI>Kirkaldie</HI> 600. m. <HI>Monro&s;e</HI> 324. m. <HI>Cowpar</HI> 216. m. <HI>Au&s;truther</HI> ei&s;ter 180. m. <HI>Dumfreis</HI> 270. m. <HI>Innernes</HI> 450. m. <HI>Breichen</HI> 220. m. <HI>Irving</HI> 252. m. <HI>Elgine</HI> 135. m. <HI>Iedburgh</HI> 126. m. <HI>Kircudbright</HI> 180. m. <HI>Wigtoun</HI> 135. m. <HI>Pittinweyme</HI> 120. m. <HI>Dumfirmling</HI> 162. m. <HI>Dumbartan</HI> 162. m. <HI>Renfrew</HI> 90. m. <HI>Lanerk</HI> 162. m. <HI>Aberbrothok</HI> 81. m. <HI>Bruntiland</HI> 216. m. <HI>Peibles</HI> 108. m. <HI>Craill</HI> 216. m. <HI>Kinghorne</HI> 108. m. <HI>Taine</HI> 90. m. <HI>Selkirk</HI> 126. m. <HI>Au&s;truther</HI> we&s;ter 54. m. <HI>Culro&s;e</HI> 90. m. <HI>Dumbar</HI> 180. m. <HI>Bamff</HI> 72. m. <HI>Whithorne</HI> 45. m. <HI>Forfar</HI> 27. m. <HI>Rothe&s;ay</HI> 60. m. <HI>Forre&s;s</HI> 54. m. <HI>Rutherglen</HI> 45. m. <HI>Northberwick</HI> 36. m. <HI>Cullein</HI> 27. m. <HI>Nairne</HI> 36. m. <HI>Lawder</HI> 45. m. <HI>Innerkeithing</HI> 90. m. <HI>Kilrynnie</HI> 27. m. <HI>Annan</HI> 30. m. <HI>Lochmaben</HI> 18. m. <HI>Sanquhair</HI> 27. m. <HI>Galloway</HI> 18. m. <HI>Dingwall</HI> 18. m. <HI>Queensferrie</HI> 108. m. <HI>Dor|noch.</HI> 18. For the better In-bringing and Collecting whereof, The &s;aids E&s;tates of Parliament, allows to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Stewart</HI> De|puties, one or more in each Shire and Paroch, in manner contained in the Act for the Taxt and Loan; Which Collectors and Deputies fore&s;aids and Clerks to be appointed by him, &s;hall have &s;uch Fee as is allowed in the Act of Loan and Taxt: The Burghs alwayes being free of the afore&s;aids Fees. And the E&s;tates Ordains that the Letters and Charges to follow upon this Act for payment of the fore&s;aid Maintenance &s;hall be rai&s;ed and direct at the in&s;tance of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Stewart</HI> and Collectors afore&s;aid again&s;t the &s;ub-Collectors of Shires, Magi&s;trates of Burghs, Collectors of Paroches, Heritors, Fewers, Life-renters, and others indebted in payment of their &s;eve|rall proportions of this monethly Maintenance now impo&s;ed, And with power to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Stewart,</HI> that if any Shire or Burgh be deficient in payment of their parts of this Maintenance, to imploy any Forces that &s;hall happen to be upon the bounds for the time, or in the next neigbouring bounds adjacent thereto, for uplifting of the &s;aid moneths Maintenance from the deficient Shires, Burghs and Paro|ches, which Troops are to receive their entertainment from the deficients at the ordinary rates be&s;ide the payment of their maintenance: And it is hereby Ordained that the Committees of War within the &s;everall Shires &s;hall be aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting the &s;aid Generall Commi&s;|&s;ary herein, for inbringing of the &s;aid maintenance; And in regard of the prorogating of the fore&s;aid Maintenance on the Shires and Burghs for the &s;aid moneth of <HI>February,</HI> It is Statute and Ordained by the E&s;tates of Parliament, that every debtour &s;hall have Retention from the Creditors of one of each eight payable for annual Rent for the &s;aid moneth above &s;pecified, So that the debtor &s;hall be lyable in payment of &s;even of annual Rent of each hundreth of &s;tock proportionally according to the &s;aid moneth, With this provi&s;ion always, that no debtor what&s;oever &s;hall have the fore&s;aid benefit of Retention who &s;hall not pay his annual Rent to the Creditor within the &s;pace of ane yeer after that one preceding years annual Rent is fully re&s;ting, owing, unpaid: And in regard of the pre&s;ent di&s;tre&s;&s;ed condition of the Sheriffdoms of <HI>Argyle</HI> and <HI>Bute,</HI> The E&s;tates do exeem the whole Sheriffdom of <HI>Argyle</HI> from all payment of the fore&s;aid one moneths maintenance of <HI>February</HI> in&s;tant; As al&s;o exeems the Sheriffdom of <HI>Bute,</HI> from all payment of the equall half of the &s;aid moneths Main|tenance; And Ordains the &s;ame Shire of <HI>Bute</HI> to be only liable in payment of the whole half of the &s;aid moneths Maintenance, And to be proportionably payed by the Heretors and others lyable in payment thereof through the whole Shire of <HI>Bute:</HI> As al&s;o the E&s;tates declares this pre&s;ent Act to be without prejudice of the Act granted in favours of the Town of <HI>Innernes</HI> of the fift of <HI>Ianuary</HI> 1647. years, That any Taxations or Impo&s;itions to be layed on that Town be allowed to them in part of their lo&s;&s;es conform to the tenour of that Act: And la&s;t|ly, it is Ordained that no &s;u&s;pen&s;ion be granted without con&s;ignation; and that all Heritors within Burghs, Pendicles and Liberties thereof &s;hall contribute with them for payment of the Maintenance, as is mentioned in the Act of the 27. of <HI>February</HI> 1645. years. And the &s;aids E&s;tates Ordains, that the Lands and Teinds &s;hall pay the fore&s;aid Maintenance, as they lie locally in Shires and Burghs, conform to the former Act of Maintenance; And it is hereby Declared, that this Act is to be without prejudice of the Priviledges of the Lords of Se&s;sion, conform to former Acts of Maintenance: And Ordains the &s;ame pre&s;ently to be Proclaimed, And thereafter Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>William Scot,</HI> Cler. Parl.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty, 1649.</P>
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