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The act of supply again taken into consideration and the act of security being offered as a clause to be added to the act of supply, read, and after debate thereon, the following resolve was offered by [William Ross], lord Ross: resolved that the parliament will proceed to grant two months' supply for subsisting her majesty's forces and, as soon as the act of security now read has got the royal assent, will give four months' supply more.
And then a second resolve presented by [John Ker], earl of Roxburghe namely, agreed and resolved that there be a first reading marked on the act of security and that both this act and the act for the supply lie without being further proceeded on until his grace her majesty's commissioner receives instructions as to the act of security, it being then free to the parliament to proceed to the acts jointly or separately as they shall think fit. And after reasoning on both the said resolves, the question was stated, approve the first resolve presented by the Lord Ross or the second resolve presented by the earl of Roxburghe, and carried approve the second; and the act of security being read, a first reading was ordered to be marked thereon.