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<Q>HONI SOIT QUI MALY PENSE</Q>
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</FIGURE> <HI>ACT</HI> Again&s;t fal&s;e Musters and free Quarters, and anent due Paying of Their Maje&s;ties Forces.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>At <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the ninth of <HI>May</HI> 1693.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_OUR SOVERAIGN LORD and LADY, the King and Queens Maje&s;ties, and the E&s;tates of Parliament, taking to their Con&s;ideration, that it will contribute much to Their Maje&s;ties Service, that all Fraud and Deceit in making of fal&s;e Mu&s;ters, be obviated &amp; prevented, &amp; that the Pay de&s;tinat and appointed to the Souldiers be not kept up by their Officers and others, intru&s;ted with the pay|ment of the Souldiers, but that their Pay be effectually given them. Therefore, the King and Queens Maje&s;ties and E&s;tates of Parliament, Statutes and Ordains, that if any Per&s;on, Officer, or other of Their Maje&s;ties Forces, as well in Ca&s;tles and Garri&s;ons as Others, &s;hall make, or give, or procure to be made or given, or make u&s;e of any fal&s;e or untrue Certificat, thereby to excu&s;e any Souldiers for their ab&s;ence from any Mu&s;ter or other Service, which they ought to attend or perform, upon a pretence of &s;ickne&s;s or other cau&s;e, that then every Per&s;on &s;o making, gi|ving, or procuring &s;uch Certificats, &s;hall be fyned for every &s;uch offence, in the Sum of one thou&s;and Merks, the one half to Their Maje&s;ties u&s;e, and the other half to the Informer, and if he be an Officer that contraveens, he, be&s;ide the fine of one thou&s;and Merks, &s;hall be Ca&s;hiered and Di&s;placed, and &s;hall be Incapa|ble of any Military Office or Imployment within this Kingdom, and every Officer that &s;hall make any fal&s;e or untrue Mu&s;ter of Man or Hor&s;e, and every Com|mi&s;&s;ary, Mu&s;ter-ma&s;ter, and other Officer, that &s;hall allow or &s;ign the Mu&s;ter-roll, wherein &s;uch fal&s;e Mu&s;ters is contained, &s;hall be Ca&s;hiered and lo&s;s their Of|fice, and &s;hall be Incapable of any Military Office or Imployment, within this Kingdom, and &s;hall likewi&s;e, be fyned in the Sum of one thou&s;and Merks, the one half to Their Maje&s;ties u&s;e, and the other half to the Informer, and for the more effectual preventing of fal&s;e Mu&s;ters, Statutes and Ordains, that every Commi&s;|&s;ary or Mu&s;ter-ma&s;ter, upon any Mu&s;ter to be made, &s;hall be obliged, to give notice a convenient time before, to the Magi&s;trats of the Burghs, or Sheriffs of the Shyres, or their Deputs, or Baillies of Royalty or Regality, or their Deputs, or Stewarts of Stewartries, or their Deputs, within who&s;e Juri&s;dictions the Mu&s;ter is to be made, and the Magi&s;trats of the Burgh, in ca&s;e the Mu&s;ter be to
<PB N="2" REF="2">be made within a Burgh, and the Sheriff or their Deputs, when the Mu&s;ter is to be made within a Sheriffdom, and the Baillie of the Regality or his Deputs, when the Mu&s;ter is to be made within a Regality, and the Stewart of the Stewartries or their Deputs, when the Mu&s;ters is to be made within a Stewartry, to be pre&s;ent at every &s;uch Mu&s;ter, and give their utmo&s;t A&s;&s;i&s;tance, for the di&s;covering of any fal&s;e or untrue Mu&s;ter, and every Commi&s;&s;ary or Mu&s;ter-ma&s;ter, that &s;hall ne|glect to give notice as &s;aid is, or &s;hall refu&s;e to take the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Magi|&s;trats of Burghs, when the Mu&s;ter is made within a Burgh, or of the Sheriffs, Baillies of Regalities and Royalties, and Stewarts, or their Deputs, when the Mu&s;ter is made within their re&s;pective Juri&s;dictions, the Commi&s;&s;ary or Mu&s;ter-ma&s;ter &s;o offending, &s;hall lo&s;s his Office, and be fined in the Sum of one thou&s;and Merks, the one half to Their Maje&s;ties u&s;e, and the other half to the Informer, and no Mu|&s;ter-roll &s;hall be allowed, unle&s;s the &s;ame be &s;igned by the Magi&s;trat of the Burgh, or Sheriff of the Shyre, or Baillies of Regalities and Royalties, or Stewarts or their Deputs, within who&s;e Juri&s;dictions the Mu&s;ter is made, and if any per&s;on &s;hall be fal&s;ly mu&s;tered, or offer him&s;elf fal&s;ly and deceitfully to be mu&s;tered, upon Certificat thereof under the hand of the Mu&s;ter-ma&s;ter, or chief Magi&s;trat of the place, who &s;hall be pre&s;ent at the mu&s;tering, he &s;hall be Impri&s;oned for the &s;pace of a Moneth, &amp; &s;hall have his right ear cut off; &amp; if any Per&s;on &s;hall wittingly &amp; wil|lingly, lend or furni&s;h a Hor&s;e to be mu&s;tered, which &s;hall not truly belong to the Trooper, or Dragooner, or Troop mu&s;tered, the &s;aid Hor&s;e &s;o fal&s;ly mu&s;tered, &s;hall be Forefaulted to the Informer, if the Hor&s;e doth belong to the Per&s;on, Lending or Furni&s;hing; and if the Hor&s;e do not belong to the Lender or Furni&s;her, he &s;hall be fined in the Sum of five hundred Merks, to be payed to the Informer, and if he be an Officer that Lendeth or Furni&s;heth a Hor&s;e to be mu&s;tered, which doth not truly belong to the Trooper or Dragooner mu&s;tered, e|very &s;uch Officer &s;o offending, &s;hall be fined in the Sum of five hundred Merks, to be payed to the Informer, which &s;hall be payed out of the Arrears of the &s;aid Officers Pay, by the Order of the Court-martial to the Pay-ma&s;ter, if the &s;aid Of|ficer &s;hall have any Arrears due to him; and if there &s;hall be no Arrears due to the &s;aid Officer, the Court Martial &s;hall immediatly give Order, to &s;eize the Goods of the &s;aid Officer, and &s;ell them for payment of the Fyne, which is to be given to the Informer, the Superplus that is more than pays the &s;aid Fyne, being alwi&s;e re&s;tored to the Owner; and if the Officer &s;o offending, &s;hall have no Goods, that then he &s;hall be committed to Pri&s;on, there to remain for the &s;pace of &s;ix Mo|neths, and the Court Martial &s;hall di&s;charge the Informer, if he be a Souldier, from any further Service, if he demand the &s;ame, and if any Pay-ma&s;ter, or Clerk of any Regiment, Troop, or Company, &s;hall detain and withhold by the &s;pace of a Moneth, the pay of any Officer or Souldier, (Cloaths and all other ju&s;t Al|lowances being deduced,) after the Pay &s;hall be received; or if any Officer having received their Souldiers Pay, &s;hall refu&s;e to pay every common Souldier their re&s;|pective Pay, when it &s;hall become due, the Pay-ma&s;ter, Clerk, or Officer &s;o of|fending, &s;hall lo&s;s his Office or Imployment, and &s;hall be fined in two thou&s;and Merks, to be payed to the Informer, and to be rai&s;ed in manner fore&s;aid, and &s;hall be Incapable of any Office or Imployment, Civil or Military within this Kingdom, and the Informer, if a Souldier, &s;hall be di&s;charged of any further Service, if he demand the &s;ame. And it is further Statute &amp; Ordained, that the commanding Officer of every Troop or Company, at the time of Mu&s;ter, &s;hall bring in a Cetificat &s;igned of the number of &s;uch Per&s;ons, as are &s;ick, or have leave to ab&s;ent upon Foreloffs, and of &s;uch as are dead and de&s;erted &s;ince the la&s;t Mu&s;ter, with the days of their deaths or de&s;ertions; and if &s;uch Certificats &s;hall prove fal&s;e, the Officer &s;igning &s;uch a Certificat, &s;hall be lyable to the &s;ame pain, as in the ca&s;e of fal&s;e Mu&s;ters: As al&s;o it is Provided, that if any Officer, Commi&s;&s;ary, or Mu&s;ter-ma&s;ter, &s;hall Mu&s;ter any per&s;on that is a Servant, or receives Wages from any Officer, or that &s;hall attend any Officer as a Servant, in the ab&s;ence of the &s;aid Officer from his
<PB N="3" REF="3">Quarters, or &s;hall Mu&s;ter any per&s;on by a wrong Name, the &s;aid Officer, Com|mi&s;&s;ary, or Mu&s;ter-ma&s;ter &s;hall be puni&s;hed as in the ca&s;e of fal&s;e Mu&s;ters. And it is further Statute and Ordained, that no Pay-ma&s;ter of the Army, Commi&s;|&s;ary, or Mu&s;ter-ma&s;ter, or their Deputs and Servants, &s;hall receive any Fees, or make any Deductions what&s;omever out of the Pay of any Officer or Souldier, other then the u&s;ual Deductions for Cloathing, under the Pain of being puni&s;hed as in the ca&s;e of fal&s;e Mu&s;ters; and it is Declared, that the Pay-ma&s;ter of the Ar|my, Commi&s;&s;ary, or Mu&s;ter-ma&s;ter, &s;hall be lyable to the &s;ame Pain and Puni&s;h|ment in ca&s;e of Contravention, by their Deputs and Servants, as if they had done it them&s;elves; and as the Officers and Souldiers &s;hould be effectually payed, and not defrauded of their due Pay, &s;o it is ju&s;t and rea&s;onable that they pay the Coun|trey, and not be allowed to exact free Quarter where they come. Therefore, and for freeing the Country of other Abu&s;es and Di&s;orders in u&s;e to be Committed by the Souldiers, The King and Queens Maje&s;ties, and the E&s;tates of Parliament, Ratifies, Approves and Confirms an Act of Privy Council, of the date the four|teenth day of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t, one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred ninety three, <HI>anent the Or|dering of the payment of Provi&s;ions for the Forces, and Redre&s;sing Abu&s;es commit|ted by them,</HI> in the whole Heads, Tenors and Contents thereof; and Ordains the &s;ame to take full effect, and to be put to further execution, of the which Act the Tenor follows, <HI>William</HI> and <HI>Mary,</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Brittain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Faith, To</P>
<P>Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute, Greeting. Fora&s;|much as by divers Laws and Acts of Parliament made by Our Royal Predece&s;&s;ors, all free Quartering of Souldiers in tran&s;ient or local Quarters, and all Localities for furni&s;hing or carrying Corn, Straw, Hay, or Gra&s;s to Souldiers Hor&s;es, is expre&s;ly Prohibited and Di&s;charged; and by an E&s;tabli&s;hment under Our Royal Hand, there being Mea&s;ures laid down, and Fonds appropriat for the exact and punctual payment of the &s;tanding Forces and Gari&s;ons within this Our antient Kingdom, and a Com|mi&s;&s;ary appointed for making due and regular Provi&s;ions of Corn, Straw and Gra&s;s, for the Hor&s;es and Dragoons pre&s;ently under Our Pay, and in Our Service with|in this Our antient Kingdom, by ready Money, or otherwi&s;e as he can be&s;t Bargain with any of Our Leidges for their Corn, Straw and Gra&s;s: Whereby the Abu&s;es heretofore done and committed upon any of Our Leidges, by the Illegal exacting Locality or free Quarter, may be Remeeded and Prevented, and all Mens meat, and Hor&s;e-meat furni&s;hed to any Officers or Souldiers in Our Service within this Our antient Kingdom, duely payed. And We con&s;idering how nece&s;&s;ary it is, that all Our good Subjects &s;hould know by whom, and in what manner they are to be payed for all Provi&s;ions of Corn, Straw and Gra&s;s, for Hor&s;es, and Meat and Drink to be furni&s;hed to Our Officers and Souldiers, by them or any of them; and that all Officers and Souldiers within this Our &s;aid antient Kingdom may go|vern and regulat them&s;elves, and the Troops under their Command accordingly, as they will be an&s;werable. We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Coun|cil, Require and Command the Commi&s;&s;ary-General, appointed and received by the Lords of Our The&s;aury, to make due and timeous Provi&s;ions of Oats, Straw and Gra&s;s, for all Hor&s;e and Dragoons at pre&s;ent under Our Pay, and in Our Ser|vice within this Our antient Kingdom, in their re&s;pective, tran&s;ient and local Quarters: And that the &s;ame may be more orderly and effectually done, We Require and Command all Our Officers, who command the &s;aid Troops, to give timely Notice to the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ary of their Removal to, and from local Quar|ters, and of the Rout appointed for their March in tran&s;ient Quarters, that Pro|vi&s;ions may be ready accordingly. And in ca&s;e any Parties be called to March u|pon &s;udden Commands, which may not be fit to impart to the Commi&s;&s;ary: Then We with Advice fore&s;aid, &s;trictly Charge and Require the Commanders of the &s;everal Parties, to buy with ready Money the Oats, Straw and Gra&s;s, nece&s;&s;ary
<PB N="4" REF="4">for their Hor&s;es, as any other of Our Leidges is in u&s;e to do, and what he &s;hall de|pur&s;e or expend thereon: We hereby Require and Command Our &s;aid Commi&s;|&s;ary to refound and repay the &s;ame. And We with Advice of Our Privy Council, do hereby Require and Command Our Commi&s;&s;ary-General by him&s;elf, or fit Per|&s;ons imployed and intru&s;ted by him, to attend at the Magazines which &s;hall be pro|vided for Our Troops at their re&s;pective Quarters, two Hours each Day, <HI>viz.</HI> betwixt ten and twelve in the Forenoon, at the lea&s;t to attend the two Hours above-named upon one or moe days of each Week, &s;uch as &s;hall be particularly a|greed upon betwixt the Commi&s;&s;ary and the Officers, to the effect, the Provi&s;i|ons may be given out by the Commi&s;&s;ary, and received by the Officers or Soul|diers timeou&s;ly, and without Di&s;order or Confu&s;ion, and hereby all Officers and Souldiers are peremptorly Prohibited and Di&s;charged to offer any Injury or A|bu&s;e to Our &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ary or his Deputs, as they will be an&s;werable at their highe&s;t Peril. And &s;icklike, We with Advice fore&s;aid, peremptorly Require and Command the Officer Commanding in Cheif, in any place of local or tran&s;ient Quarters, to &s;ee the whole Meat and Drink furni&s;hed to the Souldiers and Offi|cers under his Command, by the Land-Lords of their Quarters, exactly and com|pleatly payed at the ordinary Rates of the Countrey: And in ca&s;e there &s;hall be any Exaction or Di&s;charge of free Quarters extorted, or Abatement exacted below the ordinary Rates, or any other Abu&s;e Committed; We with Advice fore&s;aid, Re|quire and Command the Commanding-Officer there for the time, to make pay|ment by ready Money for the whole Souldiers and Officers on the place in their lo|cal Quarters, once every Week at farthe&s;t, and tran&s;ient Quarters before re|moveal, if they &s;tay a &s;horter time than a Week, under the pain of Ca&s;heiring and breaking the &s;aid Commanding Officer, upon Complaint of his tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing the Premi&s;&s;es, to be made the Party injured to Our Privy Council, or to the Sheriff, or his Deput, Bailie of Regality, or his Deput, Stewart of the Stewar|try, or his Deput, or any two Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply of the Bounds and Shire, where the &s;aids Abu&s;es and Injuries are done and committed, whom or either of whom: We with Advice fore&s;aid, Require and Command, to receive the &s;aids Complaints, and tran&s;mit the &s;ame to the Clerks of Our Privy Council, within ten days after any &s;uch Complaints &s;hall be made to them, under the pain of being lyable to repair the Party injured them&s;elves, and which Complaints, We with Advice fore&s;aid, appoint to be pur&s;ued by our Advocat and Sollicitor upon the publick Charge. And in ca&s;e any privat Party &s;hall think fit to pur|&s;ue the &s;amine them&s;elves, We hereby Require and Command the Expences that &s;hall be laid out by them; In Pro&s;ecution thereof, to be Repayed and Re|imbur&s;ed to them by the Lords of Our The&s;aury, als well as the Expences to be laid out by Our Sollicitor, all which are to be retained and deduced by the &s;aids Lords of Our The&s;aury, out of the Officers Pay, again&s;t whom the &s;aid Complaint is made and verified. And in ca&s;e any inferiour Officer in Tran&s;ient or Local Quarters, &s;hall Tran&s;gre&s;s any of the Premi&s;&s;es; We hereby Require and Com|mand the commanding Officer, upon Complaint made to him and proven, in|&s;tantly to pay the Complainer what &s;hall be due to him, and if the Per&s;on com|plained on, be an uncommi&s;&s;ionat Officer, the &s;aid Commander is in&s;tantly to break and Ca&s;heir him, and if he be a Commi&s;&s;ionat-officer, who &s;hall &s;o Tran&s;|gre&s;s; We with Advice fore&s;aid, Require the &s;aid Commanding-officer, to Su&s;|pend him in the mean time, and immediatly to Repre&s;ent the &s;ame to Our Privy Council, that they may give Orders for Breaking and Ca&s;heiring the Officer tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing, providing the Complaints for not payment of Local-quarters, or committing any of the Abu&s;es fore&s;aid therein, be made to the &s;aid Comman|ding-officer, within eight days after a weeks Quarters are re&s;ting, or any other Abu&s;es committed, and in Tran&s;ient-quarters; before the Parties removeal, with certification, if payment be not craved; or Complaints made within the time fore&s;aid, the Commanding-officer shall be free, but prejudice to the Land-lords
<PB N="5" REF="5">and others, to &s;eek their Payment and Reparation from the Per&s;ons Debitors therein, or Committers thereof, by all other legal means, and it shall be &s;uffi|cient evidence, that the Commanding-officer has been complained to, and requi|red to make payment of Provi&s;ions furnished to Souldiers, Men, and Hor&s;es un|der his Command, or redre&s;s Abu&s;es committed by them, if the &s;ame be made to him, in pre&s;ence of a Magi&s;trat within Burgh, a Ju&s;tice of Peace or two Wit|ne&s;&s;es. And We with Advice fore&s;aid, do Declare, that no Di&s;charges, shall be &s;ufficient for exonering the Souldiers and Officers; and in&s;tructing the payment of their Quarters, unle&s;s they be Sub&s;cribed by the Ma&s;ter of the Ground, or his Chamberlain, or the Officer of the Ground before two Witne&s;&s;es, or a Magi|&s;trat within. Burgh. And for preventing of a common Abu&s;e done and committed upon our Leiges, by Souldiers and Officers, in their marches Pre&s;&s;ing and Sea|&s;ing upon Hor&s;es, for their own privat U&s;e and Service. We with Advice fore|&s;aid, do &s;trictly Prohibit and Di&s;charge all pre&s;&s;ing or &s;ea&s;ing upon Hor&s;es by any Officer or Souldier, for their own particular and privat Service, under the pain of a moneths Pay, to be retained (upon complaint to be made and in&s;tructed as afore&s;aid) off the Officer who commands, and where Hor&s;es are nece&s;&s;ary for carrying Artillary, Amunition, or Provi&s;ion, or any other u&s;e of the Army, in the Towns, or in the Countrey, that the &s;ame be imployed and made u&s;e of, by order of the Commander of the Party, and of the Magi&s;trats of the Burghs joint|ly; If the Hor&s;es be furni&s;hed within Burgh: And by the &s;aid Commander, and any one of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply within the Shire, where the Hor&s;es are furni&s;hed and made u&s;e of in Landwart. And We with Advice fore&s;aid, con|form to the third Act, Parliament One Thou&s;and &s;ix Hundred and Eightie one, ordain that there be payed for each day, that the &s;aids Hor&s;es &s;hall Travel, three &s;hilling Scots for each two miles to the Man and Hor&s;e, and each day that they do not Travel, &s;ix &s;hilling Scots to the Man, and as much for the Hor&s;e, the Man being obliged to provide him&s;elf and the Hor&s;e, which &s;hall be payed by the Magi&s;trats of the Burgh: if the Hor&s;es be taken within a Town, or if in the Countrey, by the Collector of the Supply in the Shire, who are to be Repayed thereof, or to have the &s;ame allowed to them by the Receiver-general. And that the Hor&s;es nece&s;&s;ary to be made u&s;e of, and imployed for the Service, and u&s;e of our Forces above expre&s;&s;ed, may be the more Regularly and Equally proportioned and provided: We with Advice fore&s;aid, Require and Command the Magi&s;trats within Burghs, and Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply, and Ju&s;tices of Peace in Landwart, to cau&s;e provide from time to time a competent number of Hor&s;es, within their re&s;pective Bounds, for the Service of our Forces, and u&s;es fore&s;aids, as they will be an&s;werable at their Peril. And We with Advice fore|&s;aid, Prohibit and Di&s;charge any Officer or Soldier to Sea&s;e upon, or Pre&s;s any Hor&s;es, without the concour&s;e of the Per&s;ons above-named, or to detain them longer than one days March at farthe&s;t; but to re&s;tore and give back the &s;aids Hor&s;es, imployed in the manner fore&s;aid in good ca&s;e, under the pain of a months Pay to be retained in manner fore&s;aid, off the Officer who shall be found to con|traveen the Premi&s;&s;es, be&s;ides the payment of the Price of the Hor&s;e to the Fur|nisher, as the &s;ame shall be in&s;tructed before the Bailies within Burgh, Sheriffs, Stewarts, Bailies of Regalities, or Deputs, or Ju&s;tices of Peace in the Countrey. And to the end, Our Royal Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es, may be made publick and known. OUR WILL IS, and We Charge you &s;trictly and Command, that incontinent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Merkat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and all other Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-burghs of this Kingdom, als well Royalty as Regalitie and Stewartrie, and other places needful, and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make publication of the Premi&s;&s;es: And likewi&s;e, that all Our Forces as well as our Leidges, may have notice hereof. We do Require and Command, the&s;e pre&s;ents to be publictly read, at the Head of every Troop, and Company of our &s;tanding Forces, that none may pretend
<PB N="6" REF="6">ignorance. Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> the fourteenth day of <HI>Fe|bruary,</HI> and of Our Reign the fourth year, one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and ninety three. With this Addition, that in the ca&s;e of either local or tran&s;ient Quar|ters; if any Officer, or Souldier &s;hall not make due payment, conform to the &s;aid Act of Privy Council, of what they take on in their Quarters, or &s;hall commit any Abu&s;es in their Quarters, it &s;hall be lawful and lei&s;um to the Land-lord, upon whom the Souldier was quartered, to in&s;truct before a Ju&s;tice of Peace, or a Com|mi&s;&s;ioner of Exci&s;e and A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment, Magi&s;trat of Burgh, or the next Neighbour|ing Heretor, by Witne&s;s, or the Oath of the Party le&s;ed, what was taken on by the Officers or Souldiers, or what Damages were done by them in their Quarters; which being in&s;tructed, and liquidat as &s;aid is, the Ju&s;tice of Peace, and Com|mi&s;&s;ioner of Exci&s;e and A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment, Magi&s;trat of Burgh, or the Neighbouring Heretor, before whom the Value of the &s;aid Quartering or Damage &s;hall be in|&s;tructed &amp; liquidat, &s;hall be holden &amp; obliged to give the Land-lord, upon whom the Officer or Souldier were quartered; a Declaration bearing the value of the Quartering and Damages &s;u&s;tained: And Ordains the Collector of the Shire to give Allowance of the &s;ame to the Land-lord, out of the fore-end of his Ce&s;s or Exci&s;e; &amp; that the Collector of the Shire &s;hall have allowance thereof from the Ge|neral Receiver: And in ca&s;e the Land-lord be a Tennent, or other per&s;on that is nei|ther lyable for Ce&s;s or Exci&s;e; In this Ca&s;e, the Heretor of the Ground &s;hall have al|lowance of the &s;ame, out of the fore-end of his Ce&s;s or Exci&s;e, due and payable by him, to the effect that the Tennent may get payment thereof. And Ordains the Collectors of the Ce&s;s and Exci&s;e, to give allowance to the Land-lord, or He|retor of the Ground of the Sum that &s;hall be contained in the &s;aid Declaration out of the fore-end of the Land-lord or Heretors Ce&s;s or Exci&s;e, and the Col+lectors are appointed to give account thereof to the General Commi&s;&s;ary, or pay|ma&s;ter of the Army, that he may retain the &s;ame off the fore-end of the Officer or Soldiers Pay. And it is hereby declared, that if the Officer fir&s;t applyed to, as is appointed by the fore&s;aid Proclamation, &s;hall not give Redre&s;s, then the Officers Pay &s;hall be lyable as well as the Souldiers Pay, and the Collector and General Re|ceiver &s;hall give allowance accordingly, and the Collector and General Receiver, are ordained to give the &s;aid allowance, under the pain of Deprivation, by and attour the re&s;ounding of the Damage of the Partie le&s;ed. And Ordains this Act to be publickly read upon the head of every Regiment, Troop, or Company, eve|ry time the &s;ame is mu&s;tered, that due Obedience may be given thereto.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Extracted forth of the Records of Parliament, by</HI> TARBAT. <HI>Cls. Regi&s;tri.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER><HI>God &s;ave King</HI> VVilliam <HI>and Queen Mary.</HI></TRAILER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anno</HI> 1693.</P>
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