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<HEAD>ACT Of the Meeting of the E&s;tates, for Inbring|ing of the Publick Dues.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Eighteenth Day of <HI>March, 1689.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THE Meeting of the E&s;tates of this Kingdom, for Defraying the Charge and Expence of Securing the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion,</HI> Their own Safety, and the Publick Peace of the Kingdom in this Jun|cture; Do Ordain all Per&s;ons lyable in Payment of the Supply, to make Payment of what was due at <HI>Martinma&s;s</HI> la&s;t to the Collectors in the re&s;pective Shires and Burghs; And the&s;e lyable in Payment of the In-land Exci&s;e in the &s;aid Shires and Burghs, and Impo&s;ition granted to the Town of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> preceeding <HI>Candlema&s;s</HI> la&s;t, to make Payment of the &s;ame to the Tacks-men in the &s;everal Shires, which Collectors and Tacks-men are hereby Required, upon Receipt thereof, to Pay in the &s;ame to <HI>James O&s;wald</HI> of <HI>Fingletoun;</HI> And likewi&s;e Ordains all Arrears of the Cu&s;toms, For|raign-Exci&s;e, and the Crown-Rents, to be Payed to Sir <HI>Patrick Murray,</HI> pre&s;ent Receiver thereof, and the fore&s;aid Payments to be made within Ten Days after the Publication hereof at the re&s;pective Mercat Cro&s;&s;es; And grants Warrand to &V;&s;e all Execution Competent by the Law of the Kingdom again&s;t Per&s;ons lyable in Payment of the &s;aid Publick Dues; and in the mean time Di&s;charges the Payment of any Pre|cepts; And the Meeting of the States do Nominat and Appoint <HI>George Hamilton</HI> of <HI>Binnie</HI> to be general Surveyer, and to &s;ee that there be no Embazlements of the Cu&s;toms. And they Command and Require Heraulds or Macers to pa&s;s to the Mer|cat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and Sheriffs in that part, to pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the re&s;pective Shires, and to make Publication of the&s;e Pre&s;ents, that none may pretend Ignorance hereof. Extracted out of the Records of the Meeting of E&s;tates by me</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>AL. GIBSON</HI> Cls.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>EDINBURGH, Printed in the Year 1689.</P>
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