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Prayers said. Rolls called.
Minutes of the last sederunt read.
Then the following addresses were given in and read, namely address of the merchants, deacons, trades and other inhabitants of the burgh of Ayr, subscribers of the same; address of barons, freeholders, heritors and others of the four parishes of Glenkens in the shire of Galloway, subscribing the same; and address of the magistrates, town council, burgesses and inhabitants of the burgh of New Galloway, subscribers of the same, all against a union with England in the terms of the articles.
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Thereafter the act adjourning the session until 1 January next was again read, as also the clause continuing the sitting thereof from the last of February to the last day of March next inclusive inserted in the minutes of the last sederunt, and after debate, it was put to the vote, add the clause or not, and it carried add. And the clause being added, the vote was put, approve the act or not, and it carried approve.
[George Gordon], earl of Aberdeen's absence excused by his grace her majesty's high commissioner in respect of his indisposition.
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Agreed that the act in favour of the burgh of Dundee for an imposition of 2d upon the pint of ale and beer to be brewed and vended within the bounds, and for the uses therein mentioned, be taken under consideration the first of all other private business.
Ordered that the council of trade do meet and give in their observations as to export and import and balance of trade to the committee to whom the sixth and eighth articles are remitted, and that between now and the next sederunt of the said committee.
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Then the ninth article of union was read and, after reasoning thereon, it was moved that six months' cess shall be the quota of the tax to be imposed on Scotland in place of eight months agreed to by the said article. And after debate thereupon, a vote was stated, approve of the ninth article or not, and thereupon a second state of a vote was offered, namely whether six months' cess or eight months' cess should be the quota of the tax to be charged on Scotland. Then the vote was put which of the two should be the state of the vote, first or second, and it carried first. Whereupon it was put to the vote, approve of the said ninth article or not, and it carried approve.
Thereafter the tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth articles of union were all separately read and were separately voted and approved.
The fourteenth article of union read and the consideration thereof delayed until the next sederunt, to be then proceeded upon prior to all other business.
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Act adjourning the session to 1 January next and continuing the sitting thereof from the last of February to the last day of March next inclusive touched with the sceptre by her majesty's high commissioner in the usual manner.
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Our sovereign lady, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, adjourns the session to 1 January next, and declares all actions depending before the lords of session to be continued to the said day. And her majesty, with consent foresaid, dispenses in the meantime with the sitting of the court of justiciary and all inferior courts as if the parliament were not sitting, and further, declares that the time and space between the date hereof and 1 January next shall not be reckoned in any annual prescriptions. And further, her majesty with advice and consent foresaid, statutes and ordains that the session which is appointed to rise the last day of February next be continued to sit for administration of justice to the lieges from the said day to the last day of March 1707 inclusive, and ordains these words to be published at the market cross of Edinburgh and to be forthwith printed that the lieges may be certified thereof.
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The committee appointed to meet tomorrow at 9 o'clock in the usual place.
Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until Thursday next at 10 o'clock.