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B05301 Act anent the pole-money. Edinburgh, March 23. 1699.. Scotland. Privy Council. 1699 (1699) Wing S1398; ESTC R226098 1,332 1

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ACT Anent the Pole-Money Edinburgh March 23. 1699. THe Lords of His Majesties Privy Council as being impowered by the Twelfth Act of the last Session of this current Parliament Intituled Act anent Pole-money to Order and Appoint such other Methods and Courses as they shall judge fit for stating and In-bringing of the Pole-Money imposed by the said Act Do hereby Order and Appoint the Commissioner of Supply in each Shire to meet with all convenient Diligence at the Head-Burgh or other usual place of Meeting within the said Shire by their Conveener or if they have none by the Sheriff for that effect And there to Order one of their Number per vices to Attend or keep Court Weekly two days at least viz. Tuesday and Thursday each Week at the said Burgh As also That the Magistrats of Burghs Royal Appoint one of their Number to Attend and keep Court Weekly per vices within their Burgh at least two days each Week to the effect the said Commissioner or Magistrat so to be appointed may give out Warrands for Citation at the Instance of the Tacksmen of the said Pole or any having their Order against the persons lyable in payment of the said Pole Single Double or Quadruple the Single and Double being always included in the said Quadruples being the highest and outmost wherein any person can be lyable by the said Act and sustain Process and Administer Justice and pass Decreets against the saids Persons lyable conform to the said Act of Parliament As also that Process be sustained in the case foresaid upon a Citation to one Dyet whereupon the Persons cited if personally apprehended may be likewise holden as Confest and that upon the Decreets to be given by the said Commissioners or Magistrats of Burghs against the Persons lyable in the foresaid Pole The like summar Execution may be directed as upon Decreets for Supply or Excise Quartering only excepted And farder that a Precept or Letters may be directed against all these that shall be decerned for the said Pole within one Shire or Burgh and that the several Persons and Sums therein contained shall not make several Causes but shall only be payed for as one Cause And the saids Lords do hereby appoint ordain all Clerks of Shires and of Burghs Royal to exhibite and make patent to the said Tacksmen or any having their Order their respective Valuation and Stent-Roll when required in order to particular mens Stents or Valuation whose Poles are not other ways determined As likewise that the Inhabitants of Burghs Royal give Lists when required of such as Reside within their Families and that the Magistrats give the necessary Orders for that effect and the foresaid Clerks of Shires and Burghs and also their Collectors are hereby Ordained to give to the saids Tacksmen or these having their Orders Notes or Abstracts of what Instruments may be taken in their hands by any Person lyable in the said Pole anent their Listing or paying And lastly the saids Lords of His Majesties Privy Council Require and Ordain the Commissioners of the said Shires to cause their Clerks give Extracts of their Collectors Bonds to the said Tacksmen or any having their Order And if need beis that they give also summar Processes and Execution at the Instance of the said Tacksmen and their foresaids against the saids Collectors and their Cautioners upon their saids Bonds as Accords And the saids Commissioners and Magistrats of Burghs and all others concerned are hereby strictly Commanded and Required to Observe and Perform the Premisses as they will be answerable And these Presents are Ordained to be Printed and Published at the Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs of Shires and of all Burghs Royal in the usual Form Extracted by me GILB ELIOT Cls. Sti. Concilii Edinburgh Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty Anno DOM. 1699.