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Act in favour of the incorporations of Edinburgh for a maiden hospital read and a first reading ordered to be marked thereon.
Thereafter the second article of union again read, whereupon a motion was made in these terms: That before any vote upon the second article of union, it be inserted in the minutes as a preliminary that, the agreeing to the second article of the treaty in relation to the succession to the crown of Great Britain shall not be binding or have any effect unless terms and conditions of a union of the two kingdoms be finally adjusted and concluded, and an act passed thereupon in this parliament, and that the said terms and conditions be also agreed to and ratified by an act of the parliament of England.
As also a resolve was given in in these terms as follows: Resolved that this house will proceed to the consideration of the articles in the treaty which relate to trade and taxes before any of the other articles. Which being read, after some debate thereupon, the vote was stated, proceed to the consideration of the second article of the union in the terms of the above motion, or proceed to the consideration of the fourth and other articles of the treaty which relate to trade and taxes.