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Her majesties' high commissioner and the estates of parliament, haveing heard the petition of Archbald Houstoun, writer to the signet, humbly shewing unto them that the petitioner, haveing had the honour to serve as clerk to the late commission of parliament anent the pole jM vjC and ninety three for the space of two years and upwards, dureing which time the petitioner served in the said office with all possible care and never exacted any thing from the officers for his said service. And seeing, by orders of the last commission for auditing the publick funds, any of the money that was brought in to the petitioner's hands is ordered to be transmitted intirely to the hands of their clerk, and that the commission to whom the petitioner served as clerk and who saw and knew his pains and diligence thought fit to referr the gratification they should think proper for him untill the dividend should be made, and seeing it is just that he should have a consideration and reward for his two years service and labour in the said affair, haveing received nothing at all from the officers, as said is, and now being to deliver up what of the fund of the pole money is in his hands, therefor, humbly craveing his grace and the honourable estates of parliament to allow and appoint to the petitioner such a suteable gratification and reward for his two years service and pains, as said is, as his grace and honourable estates should think fit, and to allow the petitioner to retain the same in his own hands, as the said petition bears. And his majesties' high commissioner and the said estates of parliament, haveing fully considered the said petition, and being therewith well and ripely advised, they allowed and hereby allow to the petitioner, for his above two years' service and pains, six hundred pounds Scots yearly, extending in all to twelve hundred pounds money foresaid, and allowed and hereby allow the petitioner to retain the said sum of twelve hundred pounds in his own hand.