Procedure, 24 December 1702, Edinburgh

Edinburgh the Twenty fourth of December J^aj vii^c and two years

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Warrant

Warrant to the Commissioners of Supply within the Shyre of Stirling to meet and proportion the cess etc

The Lords of her Majesties privy Councill Doe hereby appoint and Ordaine the Earle of Linlithgow and Callander Shiriff principall of the Shiriffdome of Stirling, and in his absence Mr Charles Bennett of Livilands his depute to intimat to all the Commissioners of Supplie within the said Shyre of Stirling To meett at the said burgh of Stirling being the head burgh of the Shyre upon the Second Wedensday of January nixt to come being the threteinth day of the Samen moneth; and ther and then to proportion and Lay on the cess payable by and Imposed upon the Said Shyre at Candlmas nixt to come; and for the Subsequent termes mentioned in the Sixth act of the Last Session of the late parliament dated the Nyntein day of June last by past with power to them to Choise ane Collector for uplifting the said Cess and Supplie and take Sufficient Caution of him and to doe every other thing appointed by the said act of parliament for that effect And the saids Lords doe hereby prorogate and continue the time and dyet for the Commissioners of Supplie within the said shyre to qualifie themselves for being Commissioners of Supplie therof by Swearing the Oath of alledgance and Subscrybeing the Same with the assurance to her Majestie untill the said threteinth day of January nixt to come inclusive And allowes all of them who shall qualifie themselves before or upon the said day to be Commissioners of Supply for the said Shyre Conforme to the Severall acts of parliament and proclamationes of Councill made theranent.