Procedure

Prayers said. Rolls called.

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.33/183 (note parallel folio system). Back
  2. For alternative text see PA6/36, f.185: 'In the parliament the sext day of December [jM vijC] and sex years two states of a vote being proposed, the first in these terms, viz approve of the fourteenth article of union as amended or not, and the second in these terms, approve or amend, werupon the vote was putt whither first or second should be the state of the vote, and it caryed first, and the list of the members as they voted first or second (ordored to be printed) is as followes'. This passage does not appear in APS. Back
Procedure: minutes read

Minuts of the last sederunt read.

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.33/183 (note parallel folio system). Back
  2. For alternative text see PA6/36, f.185: 'In the parliament the sext day of December [jM vijC] and sex years two states of a vote being proposed, the first in these terms, viz approve of the fourteenth article of union as amended or not, and the second in these terms, approve or amend, werupon the vote was putt whither first or second should be the state of the vote, and it caryed first, and the list of the members as they voted first or second (ordored to be printed) is as followes'. This passage does not appear in APS. Back
Procedure: fourteenth article read, vote on amendment, vote to be printed

The fourteenth article of union as amended [was] again read, as also the clause offered to be added to the said article insert in the minuts of the last sederunt, as to the exemption from any other customes, excises, taxes or any other burdens or dueties than those consented to in this treaty and, after debate, there were two states of a vote proposed, the first in these terms, approve of the article as amended or not, and the second in these terms, approve or amend, and before voteing, it was agreed that the members shall be marked as they shall vote in both votes, and that the list of their names shall be recorded and printed accordingly.

Then it was putt to the vote which of the tuo shall be the state of the vote, first or second, and it caryed first.†

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.33/183 (note parallel folio system). Back
  2. For alternative text see PA6/36, f.185: 'In the parliament the sext day of December [jM vijC] and sex years two states of a vote being proposed, the first in these terms, viz approve of the fourteenth article of union as amended or not, and the second in these terms, approve or amend, werupon the vote was putt whither first or second should be the state of the vote, and it caryed first, and the list of the members as they voted first or second (ordored to be printed) is as followes'. This passage does not appear in APS. Back