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Prayers said. Rolls called.
Minutes of the last sederunt read.
The fifteenth article of union read and, thereafter, the first clause or paragraph thereof again read. As also, the report brought in from the committee for examining the calculation of the equivalent being as follows: The committee of parliament to whom the considering of the calculation of the equivalent was remitted, having considered the report made to them by Doctor James Gregory, professor of mathematics in the college of Edinburgh, and the report made by Doctor Thomas Bower, professor of the mathematics in the college of Aberdeen, of their several and respective examinations of the calculation and grounds thereof whereupon the commissioners in treating the article for establishing the equivalent did proceed, and also having considered the report of the subcommittee thereupon, they find that the computation of the equivalent mentioned in the article is just and that the calculation is exact and well founded in the terms and in manner expressed in the said article.
Whereupon it was proposed to delay the consideration of the said fifteenth article until reports be brought in in relation to the sixth and eighth articles, from the committee to whom the said articles are remitted. And after debate thereon, it was agreed that the proceeding on the fifteenth article shall not be understood to be any determination of the sixth or eighth articles that stand committed, but that the reasoning and voting on the sixth and eighth articles shall be entire.
Then a state of a vote was offered in these terms, approve of the first paragraph of the fifteenth article or not. But it being moved that the parliament first consider whether we shall be concerned in the payment of the English debts, a second state was thereupon offered, whether we shall engage in the payment of the debts of England, yes or no, and, after some reasoning thereon, it was put to the vote which of the two should be the state of the vote, first or second.
But before voting it was agreed that the members' votes shall be marked and that a list of their names as they shall vote shall be printed and recorded.