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Thereafter these clauses of the eighth article of union in relation to Scots salt were read, and the first clause or paragraph thereof again read and, after some reasoning thereon, it was moved that the exemption from the duty of Scots salt provided by the said clause to be for seven years shall be perpetual and, after some further debate, the consideration thereof was delayed until the next sederunt of parliament, to be then resumed prior to all other business.
Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until tomorrow at 10 o'clock.