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<HEAD>ACT again&s;t Solicitation.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE>November 6. 1677.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THE Lords of Council and Se&s;&s;ion taking to their &s;erious Con&s;ideration, that by &s;everal Acts of Sederunt, the Lords have formerly Prohibited all Solicitations, in Cau&s;es depending before them, whereby Parties did endeavour and expect &s;avour, by the Credit and Moyen of them&s;elves, or their Freinds interpo&s;ing with the Lords, and per&s;onal re&s;pects not relating to the Cau&s;e, to the great di&s;couragement of others, who had not the like Friend&s;hip, or Moyen, and to the great trouble of all, conceiving it their Intere&s;t, and that it might be looked on as a &s;light, or neglect, if they did not upon all occa&s;ions, by them&s;elves or their Friends Sollicite the whole Lords at their Hou&s;es, lying &s;cattered thorow the &s;everal places of the City, imagining thereby to have much promoted their Inte|re&s;t, and payed re&s;pect to the Lords, who have no regard to, but are troubled with &s;uch Solicitations, it being their duty and de&s;ign to do Ju&s;tice to all impartially, without re&s;pect of per&s;ons: Notwith&s;tanding of which Acts and Endeavours of the Lords again&s;t Solicitations, the &s;ame have been revived upon pretence of giving Information in the Cau&s;e: But now &s;eing written Informations are become ordinary, and that all that ought to be repre&s;ented to the Lords, in any ca&s;e, may ea&s;i|ly, and without trouble be done by written Informations, &s;ent to the Lords by a Servant, which they will heartily accept, and will not fail to peru&s;e: And finding it unfea&s;able to hinder Solicitations, &s;o long as they admit of Verbal Informati|on: Therefore the Lords do Declare, That they will admit of no Solicitation, or verbal Information, in any Cau&s;e de|pending, or that &s;hall depend before them, during the Dependence thereof, either by the Parties them&s;elves, or by any other per&s;on; And to the end the &s;ame may be effectual again&s;t all importunity, The &s;aids Lords Do Enact, and Declare, that it &s;hall be a relevant Rea&s;on of Declinator, again&s;t any of the &s;aids Lords, ordinary or extraordinary, that they have received, or heard any Solicitation, or Verbal Information in the Cau&s;e during the dependence thereof, but upon the fir&s;t ob&s;erving, that the matter offered to be &s;poken to them, did bear, or import any Solicitation, or Verbal Information, in a Cau&s;e de|pending, if they did not u&s;e all the means they could to &s;top or withdraw to hear any further thereof; or in ca&s;e any Solici|tation, or Information in a Cau&s;e depending, be offered by a Mi&s;&s;ive Letter, if they do not pre&s;ent the &s;ame to the Lords: Like as the &s;aids Lords Do &s;trictly prohibite all Advocats, Clerks, Writers and others, depending on the <HI>Colledge of Justice,</HI> or their Servants to offer to any of the Lords any Solicitation or Information by VVord or Letter, but only by written Infor|mation&punc;, Bills, or Tickets for Calling, under the pain of Deprivation, and being &s;ecluded from the Hou&s;e, excepting the Clerk of the Proce&s;s, for clearing any Interlocutor or Minu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e in the Cau&s;e: Likeas the &s;aids Lords Do Declare, That if a|ny party, or others of the Leidges, offer any Solicitation or Information, by Word or Mi&s;&s;ive, that they will amerciat them as follows, <HI>viz.</HI> Every Nobleman in 300 Merks Scots Money; Every Baron or Knight in 200 merks; every other He|retor, Gentleman, or chief Burge&s;s in 100 pounds; and every other per&s;on in 100 merks, <HI>toties quoties,</HI> to be applyed for the u&s;e of the poor. It is always hereby Declared, that the verbal Information of any Party, or other per&s;on for him, when required, or allowed Judicially, or before Auditors, in Dyets appointed for both Parties to be heard, or before the Ordi|naries upon the Bills, in relation to the pa&s;&s;ing of Bills of Su&s;pen&s;ion, or Advocation, or Advocation, or before any of the Lords, to whom either by con&s;ent of Parties, or by appointment, or recommendation of the Lords, an accomodation in any Proce&s;s is re|ferred, is no ways hereby prohibited. And to the effect the Leidges may be &s;ecured again&s;t any prejudice, which they may ap|prehend by debarring them from Solicitation, or verbal Information; The Lords do Declare, that there &s;hall be free ac|ce&s;s for all per&s;ons to Inform them by written Informations only, to be delivered by Servants; and that in all ca&s;es from time to time; And for the more &s;ure delivery of Informations, they ordain that every one of the Lords &s;hall have a Servant attend|ing in his Hou&s;e, from five a Clock, to eight a Clock at night, who &s;hall be holden to receive any Informations, doubles of Bills, or Tickets for Calling, that &s;hall be given in without payment of any Money, under &s;uch pain or puni&s;hment as the Lords &s;hall think fit; And which Informations, Bills and Tickets, &s;hall be delivered by the Servants of Advocats, or of the Parties, and by none others, and they Ordain this Act to be affixed on the VVall of the <HI>Outter-Hou&s;e.</HI> And to be Printed, that none may pretend Ignorance thereof.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE>December 24. 1679.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THE Lords of Council and Se&s;&s;ion Con&s;idering, that notwith&s;tanding of the Act made again&s;t Solicitation and verbal Information, dated the &s;ixth of <HI>November, 1677.</HI> years, yet &s;ome per&s;ons are &s;o bold as to adventure to Solicite the Lords in their Actions, and it being the Re&s;olution of the &s;aids Lords, that &s;o Laudable and nece&s;&s;ary an Act be made effectual; Therefore they Declare, that in any Proce&s;s now depending, or which &s;hall hereafter be Intented before them, when the &s;ame comes to be Advi&s;ed, they will purge them&s;elves concerning their re|ceiving any Solicitation, or verbal Information in the Cau&s;e, if it &s;hall either be de&s;ired by the Parties, or moved by any of their own number, and that they will delate the per&s;ons who do Soli|cite, or verbally Inform them, that they may be puni&s;hed therefore, conform to the &s;aid Act.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE>November 11. 1690.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe Lords of Council and Se&s;&s;ion do Ordain their Acts of Sederunt, of the &s;ixth of <HI>November</HI> 1677, and the 24 of <HI>Decem|ber</HI> 1679. again&s;t Solicitation to be Printed, and affixed on the Wall of the <HI>Outer-Hou&s;e;</HI> and they Ordain the&s;e Acts to be ob&s;erved in all points.</P>
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<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave King WILLIAM and Queen MARY.</CLOSER>
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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 Dom.</HI> 1690.</P>
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