Then the parliament proceeded to the consideration of the manner in which the burghs shall elect their representatives to the house of commons of Great Britain. Whereupon, several schemes being given in and read in relation to the manner of the said election, after reasoning thereon, and upon the number of the districts that shall be appointed for making the said elections, and upon a motion that the burgh of Edinburgh by itself shall have always one representative, the vote was stated, whether the burghs shall be divided into three districts or fifteen, (reserving entire the motion as to the town of Edinburgh its having one representative by itself) and it carried fifteen.
Then the vote was put if the burgh of Edinburgh by itself shall have one representative or not, and it carried one.
Thereafter a scheme dividing the burghs into fifteen districts, each of which districts is to have one representative, was given in and read and is as follows: the burghs of Kirkwall, Wick, Dornoch, Dingwall and Tain, one; Fortrose, Inverness, Nairn, and Forres, one; Elgin, Cullen, Banff, Inverurie and Kintore, one; Aberdeen, Inverbervie, Montrose, Arbroath and Brechin, one; Forfar, Perth, Dundee, Cupar and St Andrews, one; Crail, Kilrenny, Anstruther Easter, Anstruther Wester and Pittenweem, one; Dysart, Kirkcaldy, Kinghorn and Burntisland, one; Inverkeithing, Dunfermline, Queensferry, Culross and Stirling, one; Glasgow, Renfrew, Rutherglen and Dumbarton, one; Edinburgh, one; Haddington, North Berwick, Dunbar, Lauder and Jedburgh, one; Selkirk, Peebles, Linlithgow and Lanark, one; Dumfries, Sanquhar, Annan, Lochmaben and Kirkcudbright, one; Wigtown, New Galloway, Stranraer and Whithorn, one; and Ayr, Irvine, Rothesay, Campbeltown and Inveraray, one.
And after debate thereupon, whether it should be approved or remitted to the committee, the vote was put, approve the scheme or commit, and it carried approve.
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Then it was moved that the commissioners for the treaty of union have their expenses allowed to them and, a debate having arisen thereupon, the further consideration thereof delayed until the next sederunt of parliament.