Warrant, 31 December 1695, Edinburgh

At Edinburgh Thursday 17th January 1695

A1695/1/29

A1695/1/29¹

Act

Act anent subcollectors of Hearth money

The Lords of his Majesties privy Councill haveing Considered a Report of a Committie of their owne number appoynted for Considering […] poynts anent the hearth money They Hereby appoynt […] generall Collector of the Hearthmoney immediatlie to call in his Subcollectors and their Cautioners To compear before the Lords Commissioners of his majesties Thesaurie and depone and give their oaths before them upon their intromissione and to make payment of the same Excepting alwayes the subcollectors within the Stueartries of Orknay and Zetland and their Cautioners whose oaths and depositiones the said Lords doe hereby appoynt to be taken by the Stueart upon the place and hereby Gives and Grants Commissione to the said stueart for that effect and where any of the said subcollectors are dead appoynts the said generall Collector to Call their Cautioners To make payment of the intromissione had by their principalls and for that end takeing in their books and scrolls to the Clerks of Thesaurie and ordains these who are imployed by the said subcollectors in the foresaid hearth money to depone and give their oathe upon their intromissions Before the Shirriffs Stueart or Commissars or their Deputs within the bounds where they live and Hereby Giv’s full power warrant and Commissione to the said shirriffs and others foresaid for takeing of the said oathes and ordaines them to transmitt the oaths and depositiones of the said person when taken to the Clerk of their Majesties Thesaurie and that within such space as they shall be requyred by the said Lords Commissioners to doe the samine