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Prayers said. The rolls called.
The lord clerk register having informed the parliament that Captain John Boswell, who competed with James Oswald [of Dunnikier], commissioner for the burgh of Kirkcaldy, had taken up his commission, James Oswald took the oath of allegiance and oath of parliament and subscribed the allegiance and assurance and was admitted.
The controverted elections between John Hutchison, present provost, and Patrick Steven, late provost for the burgh of Arbroath, being called, the advocates for either party were heard, and the several protestations against their respective elections being read, after some debate the vote was stated, sustain the commission in favour of Provost Hutchison, or remit to the burgh to make a new election, and carried sustain the commission.