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Prayers said. The rolls called.
The minuts of the last sederunt read.
The lord clerk register haveing informed the parliament that Captain John Boiswell, who competed with James Oswald, commissioner for the burgh of Kirkcaldie, had taken up his commission, James Oswald took the oath of alleadgeance and oath of parliament and subscribed the alleadgeance and assureance and was admitted.
The contraverted elections betwixt John Hutchieson, present provost, and Patrick Stephen, late provost for the burgh of Aberbrothock, being called, the advocats for either partie were heard, and the severall protestations against their respective elections being read, after some debate the vote was stated, sustain the commission in favors of Provost Hutchiesone, or remit to the burgh to make a new election, and carried sustain the commission.
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The draught of the act anent the makeing peace and war, read, and ordered to be marked a first reading.
The lord chancellor, by order of her majesties' high commissioner, adjourned the parliament till to morrow at ten a clock.