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<HEAD>ACT of PARLIAMENT, In Favours of the Incorporation of the Woollen-Manufactory at <HI>NEW-MILNS.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>At <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Fourteenth Day of <HI>June,</HI> 1693 Years.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_OUR SOVERAIGN LORD and LADY, the King and Queens Maje|&s;ties, and the E&s;tates of Parliament, Con&s;idering the great advantage that ari&s;e to other Nations, and particularly to our Neighbour Nation of <HI>England,</HI> by the erecting and carrying on of Manufactories, e&s;peci|ally tho&s;e of Cloth, which do not only &s;erve them at home, but va&s;t quantities thereof, are to their great advantage exported; Be&s;ides the imploying and plen|teou&s;ly maintaining a great number of poor People: As al&s;o, that &s;ome attempts have been made to erect the like Manufactories in this Kingdom, and &s;everal Laws and Acts of Parliament made for the encouragement and cheri&s;hing &s;uch as &s;hould erect the &s;ame, Which Manufactories have neverthele&s;s not attained the wi&s;hed effect: <HI>And now &s;eing</HI> that divers of their Maje&s;ties good Subjects, (notwith&s;tan|ding of the di&s;couragements that hitherto have happened) have already entred in|to a Contract of Society and Co-parthery, for erecting and carrying on a Ma|nufactory at <HI>New-milns,</HI> and advanced a con&s;iderable &s;tock for that effect, and have al&s;o agreed that the &s;aid &s;tock &s;hall remain mortified for the ends fore&s;aid: <HI>And their Maje&s;ties and E&s;tates</HI> fore&s;aid being willing to give all due encourage|ment for advancing &s;o generous and profitable an undertaking. THEREFORE their Maje&s;ties and E&s;tates of Parliament, not only Declare the fore&s;aid Society and Co-partnery to be a Manufactory; but al&s;o erects the &s;aids Partners and So|ciety unto a free and lawful Incorporation, with all Priviledge u&s;ual, to be cal|ed in all time coming <HI>The Incorporation of the Woolen-Manufactory at New-Milns</HI> in the Shire of <HI>Haddingtoun,</HI> and to have right to, and brook and enjoy all the Pri|viledges and Immunities provided in favours of Manufactories, by the former Laws of this Kingdom. AND FURTHER, Their Maje&s;ties and E&s;tates fore&s;aid, Do hereby <HI>Enact and Ordain,</HI> That the principal Stock already advanced, by ver|tue of the fore&s;aid Coutract of Society, with the fore&s;aids Lands of <HI>New-milns</HI> and Hou&s;es acquired, and the Hou&s;es and others built and to be built thereon, with the Ware-hou&s;e and Hall in <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> &s;hall remain in all time coming, as Mortified, for carrying on the &s;aid Work, without prejudice always to any of the &s;aids Partners, or their Succe&s;&s;ors to a&s;&s;ign, transfer, or convey their &s;hares of the &s;aid Stock, and the others fore&s;aid, in whole or in part, with the burden always of the mutual Obligements of the &s;aid Contract, or to their Creditors to affect the &s;ame by legal Diligence, with the burden fore&s;aid; and the Manufa|ctory having retention of all Charges which &s;hall be expended by the Society, in the defence of any Action, to be intented at the in&s;tance of Creditors, one or more for affecting the &s;aid &s;tock of any of the Co-partners, according as the &s;aids ex|pen&s;es
<PB N="2" REF="2">&s;hall be given up, under the hand of the Mannagers for the time. And to the effect that &s;uch conveyance may be the more ea&s;ily expede, It is hereby ENA|CTED, STATUTE AND DECLARED, That the fore&s;aid Stock, Materials and Profits thereof, with the Heretages, Lands and Hou&s;es built, and to be built there|upon, and Ware-hou&s;e and Hall fore&s;aid, and the Rents and Ca&s;ualities of the &s;ame, &s;hall be Tran&s;mi&s;&s;ible by the &s;aids Partners, or any of them, for their re|&s;pective intere&s;ts, either in whole or in part, by a &s;imple Tran&s;lation or A&s;&s;ign|ment, to be recorded and in&s;ert in the Books of the &s;aid Society, as well the&s;e keeped in <HI>England,</HI> as the Books keeped in <HI>Scotland,</HI> and Signed by the Gran|ter, before two Sub&s;cribing Witne&s;&s;es, and an extract thereof &s;ub&s;cribed in like manner by the Keeper of the &s;aid Books in <HI>London</HI> and <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> is to be deli|vered to the Purcha&s;er, without any Di&s;po&s;ition, Charter, or Infeftment thereon, any other Regi&s;tration than afore&s;aid, Intimation, or any other Formality requir|ed by the Law and Practique of this Kingdom, Hereby Declaring, That &s;uch a Tran&s;lation or A&s;&s;ignment, &s;o to be recorded and in&s;erted in the &s;aids Books, with the fore&s;aid extract thereof, &s;hall be as valid and effectual Rights to the receiv|ers, as they had all u&s;ual Deeds and Evidences expede thereanent in the common Form of Law: The &s;aids Books and Records being always made patent to the Leidges, when ever and as oft as required. AND FURTHER, Their Maje&s;ties and E&s;tates of Parliament, <HI>Do Statute and Ordain,</HI> That all Materials, In&s;tru|ments and others what&s;oever needful and u&s;eful for the &s;aid Manufactory, to be imported, whether in Forraign Ve&s;&s;els, or the&s;e belonging to this Kingdom: As al&s;o, all Cloths, Stuffs, Stockings, or other Work made by the Incorporation of the &s;aid Manufactory, and exported, <HI>&s;hall be free of Cu&s;tom, Exci&s;e, and all other publick Dues, for the &s;pace of twenty one years, next after the date of this pre&s;ent Act.</HI> And fora&s;much as by the fourtieth Act of Parliament, One Thou&s;and &s;ix hun|dred &s;ixty one years, It is provided, That any Stocks imployed for erecting and entertaining Manufactories, &s;hall be free of all privat and publick Taxes. There|fore their Maje&s;ties and E&s;tates fore&s;aid, <HI>Do Statute and Ordain,</HI> That the Stock of the &s;aid Manufactory advanced and to be advanced, and profits thereof, and all Land and others acquired for the u&s;e of the &s;ame, and Hou&s;es built or to be built thereon, <HI>&s;hall be free of all Ce&s;&s;es, Supplies, Taxations, Exci&s;e, or other publick burdens, impo&s;ed during the &s;pace fore&s;aid.</HI> As al&s;o, <HI>That the Malt, or Liquors made of Malt, or other Strong Waters what&s;oever made u&s;e of for the Masters and Servants, or others employed in the &s;aid Manufactory, within the Town or Lands of New-milns, and con&s;umed within the bounds fore&s;aid, &s;hall be free of all Exci&s;e for the &s;pace of twenty one years after the date hereof:</HI> As al&s;o, that the &s;aids Lands and Hou&s;es, with the whole Inhabitants thereof, <HI>be free of all quartering of Soldiers, either local or tran&s;ient, and of Levying of Soldiers, during the &s;tanding of the &s;aid Manufactory.</HI> And for the further encouragement of the &s;aid Work, Their Maje&s;ties and E&s;tates fore&s;aid, hereby Declare, That it &s;hall not be lawful for any Military Officer or others, to inli&s;t any of the Servants belonging to the &s;aid Manufactory, although willing to engage as Soldiers; <HI>And that it &s;hall not be lawful to any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;omever, or any other Incorporation or Manufactory, to entertain in their privat Service, or for the u&s;e of any other Manufactory, any of the Servants belonging to the &s;aid Manufactory of New-milns, until they fir&s;t &s;erve out their time conform to their re&s;pective agreements;</HI> And that the &s;aids Partners &s;hall have power to call back and retain any of their &s;aids Servants, wherever they can be found: As al&s;o, Their Maje&s;ties and E&s;tates fore&s;aid, Do Declare that a Te&s;tificat upon Soul and Con&s;cience, under the hand of the Ma&s;ters and Clerk of the Society, Declaring that &s;uch a Servant belongs to the Incorporation, &s;hall be &s;ufficient to oblige any of their Maje&s;ties Leidges, Officers or Soldiers, whether Forraign; or the&s;e at home, to deliver up the &s;aids Servants, <HI>under the Penalty of an hundred pounds Scots.</HI> Requiring hereby the re&s;pective Magi&s;trats in Burgh or Landward, to &s;ecure the Per&s;ons of the&s;e Ser|vants: As al&s;o, to admini&s;ter Ju&s;tice again&s;t &s;uch as refu&s;e to deliver them back, till
<PB N="3" REF="2">till they make payment of the &s;aid Sum of an <HI>hundred</HI> pounds <HI>Scots,</HI> and deliver up the Per&s;on or per&s;ons belonging to the fore&s;aid Corporation. And further, It is hereby Statute and Ordained, <HI>That all the Regiments, Troups and Soldiers of the Scots E&s;tabli&s;hment, &s;hall be obliged to furni&s;h them&s;elves with Cloaths of the pro|duct of this Kingdom,</HI> Di&s;charging hereby any Licen&s;e or Di&s;pen&s;ation to the con|trair. And la&s;tly, Their Maje&s;ties and E&s;tates fore&s;aid; Do hereby impower the &s;aids Partners to appoint a Baillie from time to time, with power to the &s;aid Baillie to keep and hold Courts within the &s;aids Lands of <HI>New-milns,</HI> for puni&s;h|ing of Crimes and Delinquencies committed by their own Servants, or others up|on the Ground, and to decide any difference falling out betwixt the &s;aids Ser|vants, and in ca&s;e of Delinquencies, to Impri&s;on and impo&s;e and exact Fines, ac|cording to the Laws of the Kingdom: And for that effect, the &s;aids Partners to Elect, Nominat and appoint Clerks, Serjeants, Demp&s;ters, and other Members of Court requi&s;it, with all other Immunities, Powers and Priviledges granted in favours of Baillies of Barony and their Courts. Extracted forth of the Re|cords of Parliament, by <HI>George</HI> Vi&s;count of <HI>Tarbat,</HI> Lord <HI>Mcleod</HI> and <HI>Ca&s;tlehaven,</HI> &amp;c. Clerk to their Maje&s;ties Parliament, Councils, Regi&s;ters and Rolls,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>TARBAT.</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> Printer to their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1694.</P>
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