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Prayers said. The rolls called.
The minuts of the last sederunt read.
The petition of the disbanded officers delayed of untill the act for supply come to be farder considered, and in the mean time the clerk of the thesaury ordered to prepare and state an account of the funds and of the arrears due to the several regiments to which the officers belonged.
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The draught of an act for a tolleration to all Protestants in the exercise of religious worship, read.
A representation by the commission of the late general assembly against the tolleration, read.
The draught of the following acts were then given in and read viz: an act in favors of the royal burrows; an act allowing the exportation of mort lamb skins; an act continueing the prohibition of exporting English or Irish wool to the next session of parliament; an act anent the measureing and sealing of woollen and linnen cloath; an act anent a triennial parliament; an act incapacitating persons haveing pensions not annexed to offices, all officers in the army and these imployed in the customes to have votes as members of parliament in imposeing of publict burdens; an act in favors of the Company Tradeing to Africa and the Indies; an act anent leesing makers and slanderers; and an act for delivering of meal by weight, all which were ordered to ly on the table.
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John Cockburn of Ormistoun, younger, being elected commissioner for the shire of East-lothian, took the oath of alleadgeance and oath of parliament and subscribed the alleadgeance and assureance.
Moved that the act for security of the kingdom be considered in order to the first reading.
Moved that the act for securing the true Protestant religion and presbiterian government be first considered.
Moved that the act for ratifieing the first act of the parliament 1689, turning the meeting of the estates into a parliament, be considered before any other.
Moved that, before any procedure in the consideration of these acts, the remaining contraverted elections be determined for the fuller constitution of the parliament and, thereupon, the vote being stated, proceed to consider the acts or to determine the elections, it carried that the acts should be considered.
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The act for secureing the true Protestant religion and presbiterian government, read and ordered to be marked a first reading.
Then the vote was stated, whither the act for security of the kingdom which was first read or the act for ratifieing the first act of the parliament 1689 which was next read, should be first considered, and it carried that the first read should be first considered.
The act for security of the kingdom, read and ordered to be printed.
The draught of an act for adjourning the session, read and the vote being stated, mark a first reading or no, it carried no.
The lord chancellor, by order of her majesties' high commissioner, adjourned the parliament till Thursday next at ten a clock.