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<HEAD>ACT Of <HI>Council</HI> in favours of the Laird of <HI>Strouane.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> <DATE>the ninteenth day of <HI>Apryll,</HI> 1683.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_FOra&s;much, as it being repre&s;ented to the Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, by a Petition given in to them, by <HI>Alexander Robert&s;on</HI> of <HI>Strouane;</HI> That the Petitioner having a con&s;iderable Wood upon <HI>Lochrannoch,</HI> being thirty miles di&s;tance, or there|by from the Sea, or any Burgh Royal, which would have been unprofitable, or u&s;e|le&s;&s;e to him, or the Countrey; if he had not, with great Expen&s;es and Trouble cau&s;ed Erect Saw-milnes, in which, the&s;e divers years pa&s;t, there has been made the number of one hundred &s;eventy and &s;ix thou&s;and Dails, to the great benefit, and conveniency of the Countrey adjacent, be&s;ides the keeping of many Per&s;ons at work in the oods, and Milnes: And &s;eing the Petitioner is nece&s;&s;itat to bring down his Cutted Timber by the Loch in Floats, for the &s;pace of ten or twelve miles, and that frequently, by the violence of Storms, and Spaits the Floats are broken, and thrown out, upon the &s;everal &s;ides of the Loch, and over the Dame-head into the River of <HI>Timell,</HI> which joyns with <HI>Tey,</HI> and carried down the Rivers many miles, by the vio|lence of Storms, which gives occa&s;ion to the Countrey People, living upon the &s;ides of the &s;aid Loch and Rivers, to &s;ize upon his Timber, thinking they would be no further lyable, then to a dead Spuil&yogh;ie; and many times, after the Supplicant has be<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">towed his utmo&s;t coa&s;t, and has made his Timber, and Dails; broken and loo&s;e People in the Countrey, do fall upon, and carry the &s;ame away in the night time: So that the Petitioners Work is thereby likely to be broken, and ruined. And that upon the fir&s;t day of <HI>July,</HI> 1675. Upon a Repre&s;entation made by the Petitioner; the Council did grant an Act in the Petitioners Favours, again&s;t any &s;uch Inva&s;ion: As the Act in it &s;elf at more length bears; And which Act, was thereafter, upon &s;everall Con&s;iderations &s;topped, and hath not hitherto taken effect. And whereas the Petitioners Timber, and Dails have been, and are &s;till carried away, and taken up in manner fore&s;aid, to his great hurt and prejudice, unle&s;s the &s;aid Act be renewed whereby he may have Redre&s;s again&s;t the Offenders, and Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ours of the &s;aid Act; Therefore humblie Supplicating, That the Council would revive, and renew the fore&s;aid Act, granted in the Petitioners favours, and would give him &s;uch fur|ther Incouragement, for advancement of the &s;aid Publick Work, as they &s;hall think fit. And particularly, that they would intru&s;t him with the over&s;ight of Repairing of the High-wayes, betwixt his Saw-milne in <HI>Carrie</HI> and <HI>Apna|dull,</HI> and to appoint him Over-&s;eer for the High-wayes, from his Milnes and Woods towards St <HI>John&s;toun.</HI> The Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Councill, having heard and con&s;idered the fore&s;aid Petition, Do hereby Revive, and Renew the fore&s;aid Act of Councill of the fir&s;t day of <HI>July,</HI> 1675. And Ordains the &s;ame to be put in Execution, not|with&s;tanding of any <HI>Posterior</HI> &s;top given thereto. And do Prohibit, and Di&s;charge all Per&s;ons, to Meddle, or In|tromet with the Petitioners Floats of Timber, as they come down the <HI>Lochrannoch,</HI> or the Waters of <HI>Timell,</HI> or <HI>Tey,</HI> as they will be An&s;werable. And inca&s;e any of the &s;aid Timber, be, by Storms ca&s;t out of the Loch, or Ri|vers fore&s;aids; do hereby Ordain the &s;ame to be re&s;tored back, by the Intrometters therewith, to the Supplicant, Certifying all who &s;hall keep up the &s;ame, for every Cut, or Tree &s;o detained, they &s;hall not only be lyable in the ju&s;t Value thereof; But al&s;o in the Sum of Ten Merks <HI>Scots</HI> monie, to be payed to him: Certifing al&s;o, all &s;uch Per&s;ons, as &s;hall pre&s;ume to meddle with, or away take any of the Petitioners Dails after the &s;ame are made, That they &s;hall be lyable in the Penalty fore&s;aid, be&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">de the Value thereof, and be pur&s;ued therefore, before His Maj<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ties Privy Councill, Sheriff of the Shyre, and his Deputs, or any other Judge competent, as the Petitioner &s;hall think fit. And for the Petitioners further Incouragement, The &s;aids Lords do Impower, and Intru&s;t him with the Over-&s;ight of Repairing of the High-wayes betwixt his Saw-milne in the <HI>Carrie,</HI> and <HI>Apnadull.</HI> And Ordains his Name to be In&s;ert in the Proclamation anent High-wayes and Bridges as Over-&s;eer for Repairing the High-wayes from his &s;aids Milnes and Woods, towards St. <HI>Johnstoun.</HI> And do give warrand to the Petitioner, to cau&s;e Publicati|on, and Intimation be made hereof, at the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Perth,</HI> and paroch Kirkes next adjacent, and other Places needfull, That none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Extractum per me WILL. PATERSON. Cls. Sti. Concilij.</SIGNED><LB> GOD &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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