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[Recommendation made; petition read and delayed; report and overture read and remitted to committee]

Prayers said.

Rolls called.

Minuts of the last sederunt read.

Upon a motion made in favours of Mr James Andersone, he was recomended to her majestie in the terms of a recommendation a part, signed by the lord chancellar.

Petition for the officers of the army in relation to the payment of their arrears read, and it was aggreed that the same shall be taken to consideration when the parliament comes to consider the publict debts.

Report of the committee anent the accompts of the Affrican and Indian Company again read, as also the overture anent the accompts of the said company, and, after reasoning thereon,

It was aggreed that those of the Affrican Company who paid the first moity of the seven and a half per cent and therein gott allowance of the annualrent of twenty five per cent formerly paid from the first of June j^M vj^C ninety six to the first of August j^M vj^C ninty eight shall not now have allowance of the annualrent of the said twenty five per cent preceeding the said first of August j^M vj^C ninety eight years, and remitted to the committee to rectifie the accompt accordingly.

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The committee appointed to meet to morrow at nyne of the clock.

Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesties high commissioner, adjourned the parliament till Fryday next at ten of the clock.

Seafield, cancellar[ius], I.P.D. p[arliamenti]

1. NLS. A.115.a.1, Printed Minutes No.80, 1 or NAS. PA6/36, 256, f.80. Back