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<HEAD><HI>ACT</HI> Anent Pole-Money.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 30. 1698.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe E&s;tates of Parliament taking to their Con&s;ideration, how much it concerns the Honour and Ju&s;tice of the Kingdom; That the Of|ficers who &s;erved in the late War be payed of their ju&s;t Arrears: As al&s;o, that the Captains and their inferior Officers, and Sea-men who &s;erved aboard of the Friggots, appointed for defence of the Coa&s;t during the &s;aid War, be payed of the Debts found due to them by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Admirality, have not only re&s;olved that they will be careful to have the fore&s;aid Arrears and Debts payed, in &s;o far as they are &s;till re&s;ting, but do al&s;o toward payment of the Arrears due to the Officers of the Regi|ments lately disbanded, or &s;till in Garri&s;on by the late E&s;tabli&s;hment, as they &s;hall be &s;tated by the Lords of His Maje&s;ties The&s;aury, and of the fore&s;aid other Debts, as they are already declared to be due; Freely and Cheerfully offer to His Maje&s;ty an Sub&s;idy to be uplifted by way of Pole-money, and for making of this Offer effectual: His Maje&s;ty with Advice and Con&s;ent of the &s;aid E&s;tates of parliament, doth Statute and Ordain, that the per&s;ons following be lyable to, and make payment of the pole-money after-mentioned, in manner after pre&s;cribed. <HI>Viz.</HI> That all unlanded Gentlemen, and all Merchants, Sea-men, Schop Keepers, Schopmen, Trad&s;|men and others, who&s;e free Stock and Means, not including Workmens Tools, Hou&s;hold-pleni&s;hing, nor Stocks of Tennents upon their Ferms and po&s;&s;es&s;ions, is one thou&s;and Merks, and doth not extend to five thou&s;and Merks, &s;hall be &s;ubject and lyable to two pound ten &s;hilling of Pole, and that all the fore&s;aids per&s;ons who&s;e free Stock and Means, not including as above, is five thou&s;and Merks or above, and does not extend to ten thou|&s;and Merks, &s;hall be &s;ubject to four pound of Pole; That all the fore|named per&s;ons who&s;e free Stock and Means, not including as above, is ten thou&s;and Merks or above, in Worth and Value, &s;hall be lyable in ten pound of Pole; That all the fore-named per&s;ons who&s;e free Stock and Means, not including as above, is twenty thou&s;and Merks, or above fif|teen pound of Pole; That all the fore-named per&s;ons who&s;e free Stock and Means not including as above, is thirty thou&s;and Merks or above, twen|ty pounds of pole; That all the fore-named per&s;ons who&s;e free Stock and Means, not including as above, is fourty thou&s;and Merks. or above, twenty four pounds of pole-money; That all Heretors of &s;ixty pounds, and below two hundred pounds of valued Rent, be &s;ubject and lyable to three pounds of pole; That all Heretors of two hundred pounds, and under five hundred pounds of valued Rent, be lyable to nine pounds of pole-money; That all Heretors of five hundred pounds, and under one thou&s;and pounds of valued Rent, be lyable to twelve pounds of pole-money; That all Heretors of one thou&s;and pounds of valued Rent, and
<PB N="2" REF="2">above the &s;ame, and all Knights, be lyable to twenty four pounds of pole-money; That all Lords pay fourty pounds of pole-money; That all Vi&s;counts pay fifty pounds of pole-money; That all Earls pay &s;ixty prunds of pole-money; That all Marqui&s;&s;es pay eighty pounds of pole-money; That all Dukes pay an hundred pounds of pole-money; That the Sons of Noblemen <HI>foris-familia<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> pay according to their Ranks, <HI>viz.</HI> All Dukes elde&s;t Sons as Marqui&s;&s;es, and their younger Sons as Earls. All Marqui&s;ses elde&s;t Sons as Earls, and their younger Sons as Vi&s;counts; All Earls elde&s;t Sons as Vi&s;counts, and their younger Sons to pay twenty four pounds of pole-money; All Vi&s;counts and Lords Sons to be lyable in twenty four pounds of Pole. That Widows who&s;e Husbands would have been lyable to two pound ten &s;hilling of pole, or above, be &s;ubject and lyable to an third part of their Husbands pole, except Heire&s;s who &s;hall be &s;ubject to the &s;ame pole as their predece&s;sors would have been. That all Nottars and procurators before inferior Courts, and Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, be &s;ubject to four pounds of pole-money; That all Writters, not to the Signet, Agents, and Clerks of inferior Civil Courts, and Macers and Under-Clerks of Se&s;&s;ion, pay &s;ix pounds of pole-money; That all Advocats, Clerks of Soveraign Courts, Writers to the Signet, Sheriffs and their Deputs, Commi&s;&s;aries and their Deputs, Doctors of Medicine, Apo|thecaries, Chyrurgeons, and others repute Doctors of Medicine, pay twelve pounds of pole; That all Commi&s;&s;ionat Officers of the &s;tanding Forces, be lyable in four days pay for their pole. That all per&s;ons lyable in the fore&s;aid pole, if poled in different Capacities, are only to pay their highe&s;t pole. And for the better &s;tating, Ordering and Uplifting of the &s;aid pole. His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> with Advice fore&s;aid, <HI>Statutes</HI> and <HI>Ordains,</HI> that the Commi&s;&s;ioners of A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment, or their <HI>Quorum,</HI> &s;hall meet and conveen at the ordinary place of their Meeting, upon the &s;econd <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> of <HI>October</HI> next, and there &s;hall divide the whole Commi&s;&s;ioners, whether pre&s;ent or ab&s;ent, into &s;uch Divi&s;ions, and for &s;uch Bounds as they &s;hall &s;ee con|venient, to meet the fir&s;t <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> of <HI>November</HI> thereafter, at the re&s;pective places to be appointed, Impowering the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners to take up Rolls and Li&s;ts of the &s;aid poleable per&s;ons within the re&s;pective Bounds appointed to them, containing the Names, Qualities &amp; Degrees of the &s;everal per&s;ons, and of the value of the E&s;tates belonging to them, conform to the &s;aid Act; And Ordains the Magi&s;trats of Burghs Royal, to meet the third <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> of <HI>October</HI> next, and to take up Rolls and Li&s;ts of all the poleable per|&s;ons within the re&s;pective Burghs, containing their Names, Qualities and Degrees, and the value of their E&s;tates; And which Commi&s;&s;ioners and Magi&s;trats of Burghs are to give Intimation at the Kirk-door, upon a Lords Day, upon three Days warning at lea&s;t to the per&s;ons to be poled, to compear before them at the &s;aid re&s;pective places to be appointed, and give up their Names, Qualities and Degrees. and values of their E&s;tates to the Effect the re&s;pective Poles may be &s;tated and &s;et down by the Com|mi&s;&s;ioners or Magi&s;trats, and which Rolls the &s;aids Per&s;ons are to give up or &s;end under their Hands, or if they cannot write their Name, Quality Degree, and E&s;tate, &s;hall be marked by the Clerk; With Certifica|tion, that &s;uch as does not compear, or &s;end under their Hands their Names, Qualities and value of their E&s;tates, or do give up the &s;ame otherwi&s;e than it &s;hould be, they &s;hall be lyable in the Quadruple of their Pole, one
<PB N="3" REF="2">half to the Informer who &s;hall make the &s;ame appear: And which Li&s;ts and Rolls being &s;o made up within the re&s;pective Sub-divi&s;ions, &s;hall be recorded in a Regi&s;ter of the Shire or Burgh for that purpo&s;e, whereof there &s;hall be an ab&s;tract &s;ent to the Lords of the The&s;aury, betwixt and the third <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> of <HI>December</HI> next, containing the Number of the per&s;ons in the &s;everal Cla&s;&s;es and Ranks above-&s;pecified with the extent of their Pole: And His Maje&s;ty with Advice and Con&s;ent fore&s;aid, Ordains the &s;aid Pole-Mony to be payed the fir&s;t Day of <HI>January</HI> next to come, or within thirty days thereafter, to the Collector of the Ce&s;s, or to the Collector to be appointed by the Farmers, in ca&s;e the &s;ame &s;hall be &s;et in Farm at the re&s;pective head Burghs of the Shires where the Per&s;ons concerned dwell, For which Di&s;charges are to be given to the Payers <HI>gratis:</HI> And requires the Commi&s;&s;ioners of A&s;&s;e&s;ment and Magi&s;trats of Burghs, or the &s;aid Farmers, to cau&s;e Intimation to be made for the payment thereof at the Kirk-door of the &s;everal Paroches upon the &s;econd LORDS Day of <HI>Decem|ber,</HI> certifying &s;uch as &s;hall not make punctual payment at the &s;aid fir&s;t Day of <HI>January,</HI> or within the &s;aid thirty Days thereafter, they &s;hall be lyable in the double, if paying within other thirty days thereafter, or if failing after both the &s;aid thirty Days, in the Quadruple of their pole; and Ordains Execution to be u&s;ed again&s;t them for the &s;ame, either by the Collector of the Shire, or the Collector to be appointed by the &s;aid Farm|er, by poynding of their readie&s;t Goods, or Impri&s;oning their per&s;ons, the fore&s;aid poynding and Impri&s;onment alwi&s;e proceeding upon the Sen|tence of one of the Commi&s;&s;ioners for A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment, or any other Inferior Judge where the per&s;on lives, at the in&s;tance of the &s;aids Collectors, who are here|by declared Comptable for the &s;aid pole, <HI>viz.</HI> The Collector of the Shire as for the Ce&s;s, or the Collector of the Farmer to the Farmer. Likeas His Maje&s;ty with Advice and Con&s;ent fore&s;aid, hereby impowers the Lords of privy Council, to order and appoint &s;uch further Methods and Cour|&s;es as they &s;hall judge fit for Stateing and inbringing of the pole Money afore&s;aid, and to allow out of the &s;aid pole-Money &s;uch Charges and Ex|pen&s;es as &s;hall be nece&s;&s;ary for Execution of this Act; And His Maje&s;ty and E&s;tates fore&s;aid, do hereby &s;trictly de&s;tinate, appropriat and appoint the Sums to be rai&s;ed by this Act for the Ends and U&s;es above-&s;pe|cified and none other, and to be di&s;tribute and proportionally payed to the per&s;ons having Intere&s;t by the Orders of the Lords of The&s;aury, as they &s;hall find their Debts to be due: With this Declaration, that any of the &s;aids Officers who have cloathed their Regiments or Companies in Ga|ri&s;ons, &s;hall be payed of their &s;aid cloathing Money; And the &s;aid Cap|tains of the Frigots who advanced for provi&s;ion to their &s;aid Seamen and Frigots &s;hall be payed of their re&s;pective Advances both in the fir&s;t place; And the E&s;tates of parliament having con&s;idered the petition pre|&s;ented to them by the Officers of the <HI>Scots</HI> Regiments that &s;erved in <HI>Flan|ders</HI> and are now disbanded, do humbly recommend to His Maje&s;ty, to ap|point out of the fore&s;aid pole impo&s;ed by this Act, not exceeding the fourth part thereof to &s;uch of the &s;aids Officers &s;uch part of their Arrears after the fir&s;t of <HI>February</HI> 1691. and preceeding 1693. As His Maje&s;ty &s;hall think fit. And la&s;tly, it is hereby declared, that no per&s;ons lyable in payment of the pole &s;hall be holden to produce their Di&s;charges or Receipts of the &s;ame two years after the Term of payment,</P>
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<HEAD><HI>ACT</HI> Continuing the Pole.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>September</HI> 1. 1698.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>OUR SOVERAIGN LORD Con&s;idering, that the Impo&s;ition of a pole granted by the Act of the twenty ninth day of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> of this parilament, will not be &s;ufficient for the ends therein-mentioned; Doth therefore with Advice and Con&s;ent of the E&s;tates of parliament, add to the fore&s;aid Impo&s;ition, a farther Impo&s;ition of the like pole, men|tioned in the &s;aid Act of pole, for a &s;econd year, in its &s;everal Cla&s;&s;es; and for the ends, and in the Terms &s;pecified in the &s;aid Act: And Or|dains the Stating, Uplifting, payment and Application of this &s;econd years pole, to be in all re&s;pects the &s;ame as for the &s;aid fir&s;t pole, the Year, and Terms of Meetings and payments only changed. And His Maje&s;ty with Advice fore&s;aid, doth hereby expre&s;ly Burden this &s;econd pole, with the payment in the fir&s;t place preferable to all others of the Cloathing-Money due to the Officers, who were in Service preceeding the year One thou|&s;and &s;ix hundred ninety one, in &s;o far as the &s;ame &s;hall be found to be &s;till re&s;ting unpayed: And al&s;o of what &s;hall be found due to <HI>patrick Hepburn</HI> as Chyrurgeon to the Lord <HI>Strathnavers</HI> and <HI>Grants</HI> Regiments in that time, either upon the account of Droggs, or Service, as the Lords of The&s;aury &s;hal determine.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Extracted furth of the Records of parliament, by</HI> AL. GIBSON.</SIGNED></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> prin|ter to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1698.</P>
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