Att Edinburgh The Fifteenth day of December Jaj vjc nynty and Eight years
A1698/12/15
A1698/12/151
Proclamation
Proclamation Anent the Collectors of Polemoney and other points relating thereto
The following Proclamation Being read was votted approven and signed and ordered to be published and Recorded whereof the Tenor follows:
William By the Grace of God King of great Brittan France and Ireland defender of the faith To […] macers of our privy Councill messengers at arms our sheriffs in that pairt Conjunctlie and Severallie Specialy Constitute Greeting. Forasmuchas The Polemony for Two years granted To us by the Twelfth and Twenty fifth acts of the Last session of our current parliament is set in Tack and fermed with the benefite of the acts of parliament Imposing the same, And Considering That the tyme of payment of the said First years polemony does now approach and draw near, and that sundry of our Leidges by negligence or other ways, may be obnoxiously and in hazard of Incurring the penalty contained in the forsaid act of parliament If they shall not make due and punctuall payment of their respective polemoney in manner and within the tyme therein prefixt to such Collectors and at such places as shall be appointed for that Effect. For preventing of which Inconveniency and that none may pretend Ignorance Wee with Advice of the Lords of our privy Councill heirby Require and Command the sheriffs of the severall shires within this Kingdom and their Deputs, To cause Intimation be made at the severall paroch-kirk-doors within this Kingdom after the forenoons Sermon upon the Last Lords day of this current moneth of December. To all our Leidges lyable in payment of polemoney, That without fail They make payment of the soumes of money wherein they are Lyable as polemony To the Collectors of our Cess and supplie within the several shires Respective at the head Burgh of the said shire upon the First day of January next to Come or within Thirty days thereafter. Certifieing such as shall not make punctuall payment at the said first day of January or within the said Thirty days therafter. They shall be lyable in the Double, If paying within other Thirty days therafter; or if failzieing after both the saids Thirty days in the quadruple of their pole. And wee with advice forsaid, Require and Command the Commissioners of supply and Assessment within the severall shires of this Kingdom; To meet and Conveen Betwixt and the First day of January next to Come att their ordinary place of meeting, And There To call and Conveen before them The Collectors of the cess and Supplie within their Respective Shires And Require them within Eight days after the said meeting To find the same soverty and Caution or such other alse sufficient Caution For whom they shall be answerable for their faithfull Collecting of the forsaid polemoney. Conform to the Books and Lists to be given to them By our saids Farmers, of the poleable persons within the saids respective Shires, and that they shall make and faithfull and tymous payment of the said polemoney and of what shall be uplifted and collected By them of the same any manner of way. To William Cochran of Ferguslie farmer of the said polemoney or any having his order, and that at the End of each Thirty days of grace given by the act of parliament and with a List of the particular payments made in Each of the said Thirty days Subscrived be the saids Collectors, and to be by them given in to the said William Cochran of Fherguslie and his forsaids. Certifieing the saids Collectors of Cess and supply who shall faill To find caution for the Effect forsaid within the tyme above prefixt, They shall ipso facto sease to be Collectors of our Cess and supplie and shall be utterly uncapable to be continued any Longer in the said office; But the said Commissioners of Cess and Supplie are heirby authorized and Required Immediately after Elapsing of the Forsaid days, To meet and make choice of, nominate and appoint and appoint2 some other sufficient and Responsall person To be Collector of the Cess and supply within their shire and of the polemoney Imposed by the forsaid act of parliament who shall find good and sufficient caution in manner forsaid not only for Collecting our Cess and Supply, But for the Effectuall collecting and paying in the forsaid polemoney To the said Wiliam Cochran fermer thereof in manner abovementioned. And Wee with advice forsaid Require and Comand the saids Collectors finding caution in manner forsaid, To give their attendance att the head Burghs of the severall shires from and after the first day of January next to come for collecting Receaving and uplifting the said polemoney, in the same way and manner that they give their attendance for receaving the Cess and Supply and That during the Two moneths of January and February next to come And To grant discharges gratis, But always of True dates to the several persons concerned upon payment of the polemoney Expressing the soumes paid by them, and the saids Collectors of supply within the severall shires are heirby allowed to Retain in their own hands one per Cent of the whole polemoney collected and uplifted by them within their Respective shires for their pains and travell in the premises. And wee with Advice forsaid Require and command all persons Lyable in polemoney to make due and punctuall payment thereof at the head Burghs of the severall shires, To such persons who shall be Collectors of supply within the samen after the First of January next to come under the pains contained in the said act of parliament and heirin Exprest And the discharges to be granted by the saids Collectors in manner abovementioned shall be alse sufficient to the receavers as if the samen had been granted by the said Wiliam Cochran of Ferguslie our fermer himself. Our will is Heirfore And wee Charge yow strictly and Command, That Incontinent these our Letters Seen, yee pass to the mercat Cross of Edinburgh and remanent mercat crosses of the hail head Burghs of the severall shires and stewartries within this Kingdom, And Their in our name and authority make publication heirof. And wee ordain our solicitor to transmitt a sufficient number of printed Coppies heirof, To the sherifs of the several shires, stewarts of stewartries, to be by them sent to the ministers of the severall paroches within their bounds to be published after divine service in the forenoon upon the said Last Lords day of december Current. And ordains these presents to be printed and published, That none may pretend Ignorance. Givin under our Signet att Edinburgh The fifteenth day of December And of our Reign the 10th year 1698 sic subscribitur.
1. NRS, PC1/51, 502-4.
2. Sic.
1. NRS, PC1/51, 502-4.
2. Sic.