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Prayers said. Rolls called.
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The parliament, conforming to the minutes of the last sederunt, proceeded to elect the committee for examination of the calculation of the equivalent of £398,085 10s, and the three estates, having separated to their usual places, returned and reported their respective elections and the list of the committee is as follows. Of the nobility, [James Graham], marquis of Montrose, lord president of the privy council, [John Campbell], duke of Argyll and [John Hay], marquis of Tweeddale; of the commissioners for shires, Sir Alexander [Home] Campbell of Cessnock, George Baillie of Jerviswood and John Haldane of Gleneagles, and of the commissioners for burghs, Robert Inglis, Lieutenant Colonel John Erskine and Hugh Montgomery [of Busbie], and the committee was appointed to meet in the inner-session house the first interval day of parliament at 10 o'clock in the morning.
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Thereafter the eighteenth article of union was again read and, upon reasoning thereon, it was moved that the English laws concerning regulation of trade, customs and such excises to which this kingdom, by virtue of the treaty, is to be liable, should be printed for information. Moved likewise that it be remitted to a committee to consider the several branches of our trade, as to export and import, with the English laws and books of rates in relation thereto, with the customs and excises thereof for the satisfaction of the members of parliament thereupon, and to cause print such of the acts of the English parliament concerning the same as they find expedient or to report to the parliament, and after some debate on these motions the further consideration thereof was delayed until the next sederunt of parliament.