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<HEAD>ACT Di&s;charging Solicitations</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> <DATE>the &s;ixth of <HI>November,</HI> 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 <HI>Sederunt,</HI> the Lords have formerly prohibited all Solicitations in Cau&s;es depending before them, whereby Parties did endeavour and expect Favour by the credit and moyen of them&s;elves or their friends 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 moven, 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, &s;olicite the whole Lords at their hou&s;es, lying &s;cattered through the &s;everal places of the City, imagining thereby to have much promoved their Intere&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;ily and without trouble be done by written Informations &s;ent to the Lords by a &s;ervant, which they will heartily accept, and will not faile to peru&s;e; and finding it infea&s;ible to hinder Solicitati|ons, &s;o long as they admit of verbal Informations: Therefore, the Lords do declare, that they will admitt of no Solicitation, or verbal Information in any Cau&s;e depending, or that &s;hall depend before them, during the dependance thereof, either by the Parties them&s;elves, or 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;hal 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 dependance 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 depending, 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 Solicitation 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 Colledge of Ju&s;tice, or their &s;ervants, to offer to any of the Lords any Solicitation or Information by word or letter, by only by written Infor|mations, 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 Interloquitor or Minute in the Cau&s;e. Likeas, the &s;aids Lords do declare, That if any Party or others of the Leidges, offer any Solicitation or Information, by Word or Mi&s;&s;ive, that they will amerciat them as followes, <HI>viz.</HI> Every Nobleman, in three hundred Merks &s;cots; every Baron or Knight, in two hundred Merks; every other Here|tor, Gentleman, or chief Burge&s;s, in one hundred pounds; and every other per&s;on in one hundred Merks <HI>toties quoties,</HI> to be applyed for the u&s;e of the poor. It is alwayes 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 Ordinaties upon the Bills, in relation to the pa&s;&s;ing of Bills of Su&s;pen&s;ion 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 Accommodation in any Pro|ce&s;s is referred, is no wayes hereby prohibited: And to the effect the Leidges may be &s;ecured again&s;t any prejudice which they may apprehend by debarring them from Solicitation or verbal Information, the Lords do declare, That there &s;hall be free acce&s;s for all per&s;ons to inform them by written Informations only, to be delivered by &s;ervants, and that in all ca&s;es from time to time. And for the more &s;ure delivery of Informations, they ordaine, that every one of the Lords &s;hall have a &s;ervant attending 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 &s;ervants of Advocats, or of the Parties, or other &s;ervants, and by none others. And ordains this Act to be affixed on the wall of the utter Hou&s;e, and to be printed, that none pretend ignorance thereof. Extracted out of the Books of <HI>Sederunt</HI> by,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Al Gib&s;on.</SIGNED><LB> GOD &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the <HI>Heir</HI> of <HI>Andrw Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty. <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1677.</P>
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