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Prayers said. Rolls called.
Minuts of the last sederunt read.
Then the parliament proceeded to the consideration of the maner in which the burrows shall elect their representatives to the house of comons of Great Brittain. Whereupon, severall schemes being given in and read in relation to the maner of the said election, after reasoning thereon, and upon the number of the districts that shall be appointed for making the said elections, and upon a motion that the burgh of Edinburgh by it self shall have alwayes one representative, the vote was stated, whither the burghs shall be divided into three districts or fifteen, (reserving intire the motion as to the toun of Edinburgh its having one representative by it self) and it caryed fifteen.
Then the vote was putt if the burgh of Edinburgh by itself shall have one representative or not, and it caryed one.
Thereafter a scheme dividing the burghs into fifteen districts, each of which districts is to have one representative, was given in and read and is as follows: the burghs of Kirkwall, Week, Dornock, Dingwall and Tayne, one; Fortrose, Inverness, Nairn, and Forress, one; Elgin, Cullen, Banff, Inverury and Kintoir, one; Aberdeen, Bervie, Montrose, Aberbrothock and Breichen, one; Forfarr, Perth, Dundee, Cowper and St Andrews, one; Craill, Kilrennie, Anstruther Easter, Anstruther Wester and Pittenweeme, one; Dysart, Kirkcaldie, Kinghorn and Burntisland, one; Inverkeithen, Dumfermling, Queensferry, Culross and Stirling, one; Glasgow, Renfrew, Rutherglen and Dumbartan, one; Edinburgh, one; Haddington, Northberwick, Dunbarr, Lawder and Jedburgh, one; Selkirk, Peebles, Linlithgow and Lanerk, one; Dumfreis, Sanquhar, Annan, Lochmebben and Kirkcudbright, one; Wigtoun, Newgalloway, Stranrawer and Whytehorn, one; and Ayre, Irvine, Rothesay, Campbelltoun and Inveraray, one.
And after debate therupon, whither it should be approven or remitted to the committee, the vote was putt, approve the scheme or comitt, and it caryed approve.