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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140716.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>BY THE AUDITOR&mdash;GENERAL OF THE REVENUES of <HI>SCOTLAND.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_Whereas upon Application made unto the Right Honorable <HI>His Highne&s;s Council in Scotland, for the Government thereof,</HI> by the Magi&s;trates and Council of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> concerning &s;ome abu&s;e, di&s;proportion and difference lately di&s;covered to have been from the <HI>24.</HI> of <HI>February,</HI> to the <HI>28.</HI> day of <HI>April</HI> la&s;t, in the great and &s;mall Weights u&s;ed in the publick Weigh-hou&s;e in <HI>Leith,</HI> whereupon &s;ome inconveniences have ari&s;en, and prejudice al&s;o to divers Merchants, and others; Upon Con&s;ideration whereof, his Highne&s;s &s;aid Council have thought it fit, that the Dammages &s;u&s;teined by particular per&s;ons by rea&s;on of the &s;aid Abu&s;e, &s;hould be examined upon Oath, or any other legal way; and to that end, have ap|pointed me Commi&s;&s;ioner in that behalf: Wherefore, to the intent that the tender care of his Highne&s;s &s;aid Council for the ju&s;t relief and reparation of the Dammages occa&s;ioned as afore&s;aid, to any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever, may not prove to them ineffectual, The&s;e are to give notice to all manner of per&s;ons concerned, who are any way damnified or prejudiced by the di&s;proportion of the Weights, as above|&s;aid, that they are hereby de&s;ired, any time before the la&s;t day of this in&s;tant moneth, between the hours of Eight and Eleven in the morning, to exhibite before Me at my Habita|tion near the <HI>Abbey</HI> in <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> their Claims of Dammages &s;u&s;teined by them, with the Particulars how the &s;ame ari|&s;eth, together with their In&s;tructions for clearing the &s;ame; Whereby Report thereof may be made unto his Highne&s;s &s;aid Council at their next &s;itting.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under my Hand at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>this Twentieth day of <HI>May, 1657.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>JOHN THOMPSON.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH:</HI> Printed by <HI>Chri&s;topher Higgins,</HI> in <HI>Harts</HI> Clo&s;e, over again&s;t the Trone-Church, 1657.</P>
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