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Prayers said.
Rolls called.
Minuts of the last sederunt read.
Then the act for plantation of kirks etc. againe read, and was thereafter read by parragraphs, and, after the first paragraph was read, it being moved that the matter of plantation of kirks etc. be remitted to a commission, after debate thereon, the question was putt if the matter of plantation of kirks and valuation of teynds shall be remitted to a commission or to the lords of council and session, and it caried to the lords of council and session.
Then a clause was offered in favours of the macers of privy councill in these terms: declairing that the macers of privy councill, who by their gifts did attend and officiat befor the said commission of parliament, shall continow to attend and officiat befor the said lords of session in the matter committed to them by this act, as they were in use to doe befor the said commission, and non else. And, after reasoning thereon, the vote was putt add the clause or not, and it caried add.
And, after some amendments, the said act was read over. Then the vote was putt approve of the act or not, and it caried approve.
Thereafter the draught of ane act for additional premiums on the exportation of victual till the first of May againe read, and, after reasoning thereon and the addition of a clause thereto, it was putt to the vote approve of the act or not, and it caryed not.
Then the act dissolving the few duties of kirklands from the crown and disscharging the reversion thereof againe read, and, after some amendments, it was putt to the vote approve the act or not, and it caryed approve.
Overture for ane act concerning chirurgeons and apothecaries in Edinburgh given in and read, and it was putt to the vote mark a first reading thereon or order it to lye on the table, and it caried mark a first reading, and the same was ordered to be printed before a second reading.
Then the lord chancellar, by order of her majesties high commissioner, adjourned the parliament till Thursday nixt at ten of the clock.
Seafield, cancellar[ius], I.P.D. p[arliamenti]