The controverted election of the stewartry of Kirkcudbright between [Alexander MacKie of] Palgowan and [Patrick Murdoch of] Cumloden called, and their procurators being heard upon the objections against the legality of the meeting, after some debate thereupon, it was put to the vote, sustain the objections founded upon the want of a due intimation to the barons and freeholders of the stewartry or reject, and carried reject, and having proceeded to the other objections the same were rejected without a vote.
Ordered that parties' procurators should insist to discuss the mutual objections against either parties' electors.
Moved that they should yet have a diet appointed to them for discussing these objections, and accordingly the 26th instant was appointed for hearing them and diligence, with consent, granted to both parties for recovering all writs which shall be necessary in discussing the said competition.
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Proposal for supplying the nation with money, read and ordered to lie on the table.
Draft of an act discharging the importation and wearing of muslin, calico and other foreign linen, read and ordered to lie upon the table.
Draft of an act discharging the importation of victual from Ireland, read and ordered to lie upon the table.
Draft of an act discharging the importation of foreign butter and cheese, read and ordered to lie upon the table.
Ordered that her majesty's solicitors cause print these overtures for information of the members of parliament.
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Recommended to the commission appointed for public accounts, to whom Doctor [Hugh] Chamberlain's proposal was remitted last session of parliament, to bring in the same next sederunt.