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Prayers said.
Rolls called.
Minutes of the last sederunt read.
Address of gentlemen and heritors of the parishes of Maybole, Kirkmichael, Girvan, Kirkoswald and Barr, and of the magistrates and town council of Maybole and others, inhabitants of the said parishes within the jurisdiction of Carrick, subscribers of the same, against a union with England in the terms of the articles, given in and read.
Additional lists of commissioners of supply for the shires of Linlithgow, Dunbarton, Argyll and Elgin given in and read, and ordered to be added to the commissioners formerly named for the said respective shires.
Thereafter these clauses of the eighth article of union in relation to Scots salt were again read.
And, after some reasoning thereon, a clause was given in to be added thereto in these terms: and with proportional drawbacks and allowances as in England, with this exception, that Scotland after the said seven years shall remain exempt from the duty of 2s 4d a bushel on home salt imposed by an act made in England in the 9th and 10th of King William the third of England, and if the parliament of Great Britain shall at or before the expiring of the said seven years substitute any other fund in place of the said 2s 4d of excise on the bushel of home salt, Scotland shall after the said seven years bear a proportion of the said fund and have an equivalent in the terms of the treaty.
And, after further reasoning on the said clause, another clause was given in in these terms: but Scotland shall in all time after the union be exempt from paying of all duty or tax on salt made in Scotland in so far only as the said salt shall be made use of within that part of Great Britain now called Scotland, but all salt made in Scotland from and after the union that shall be exported to that part of Great Britain now called England, or to any other nation in specie, or that shall be employed in salting of fish or butcher-meat to be exported, or for victualling of ships to go to England or any other nation, shall be liable to the same duties as shall be then payable for salt made in England, to be levied and secured in the same manner, and with the same drawbacks and allowances as in England. And that after the union no salt whatsoever be brought from Scotland to England by land in any manner under the penalty of [...].
And, after further debate on the said two clauses, the vote was stated approve of the said first clause or second.
But before voting it was agreed that the members' votes shall be marked, and that the list of their names as they shall vote be printed and recorded. And [John Murray], duke of Atholl gave in the following protest: whereas salt is the most useful and necessary ingredient in all sorts of victuals, any duties or excises on the same may prove a most grievous and insupportable burden, especially on the commons. I do therefore protest, for myself and in name of all who shall adhere, that the people of this kingdom now called Scotland shall be free for ever of any duties and excises on the salt made within this kingdom.
Which being read he took instruments thereupon.
Then the vote was put approve of the first clause or the second, and it carried first.
And at calling the rolls, [James Douglas], duke of Hamilton, [William Johnston], marquis of Annandale, [Charles Hay], earl of Erroll, [William Keith], earl Marischal, [Alexander Sinclair], earl of Caithness, [John Fleming], earl of Wigtown, [James Stewart], earl of Galloway, [Charles Hamilton Douglas], earl of Selkirk, [David Murray], viscount of Stormont, [William Livingston], viscount of Kilsyth, the lords [William Fraser, lord] Saltoun, [Patrick Oliphant, lord] Oliphant, [John Elphinstone, lord] Balmerino, [Walter Stewart, lord] Blantyre, [William Hamilton, lord] Bargany, [John Hamilton, lord] Belhaven, [Robert Colville, lord] Colville [of Ochiltree] and [Patrick Kinnaird, lord] Kinnaird, George Lockhart of Carnwath, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Sir Robert Sinclair of Longformacus, John Sinclair, younger, of Stevenson, Mr Alexander Ferguson of Isle, John Brisbane, younger, of Bishopton, Mr William Cochrane of Kilmaronock, James Graham of Buchlyvie, Robert Rollo of Powhouse, Sir Patrick Murray of Ochtertyre, John Murray of Strowan, Mr Thomas Hope of Rankeilour, Mr Patrick Lyon of Auchterhouse, Mr James Carnegie of Finavon, David Graham, younger, of Fintry, James Ogilvie, younger, of Boyne, Alexander MacKie of Palgowan, Mr George MacKenzie of Inchculter, Alexander Robertson [of Craig], Alexander Watson [of Aithernie], Alexander Edgar, John Black, Francis Mollison, Robert Scott, Robert Kellie, Archibald Shiells, Mr John Lyon, Sir David Cunningham [of Milncraig], George Home and Mr Robert Fraser adhered to the duke of Atholl's protest.
Thereafter it was moved to read over the said eighth article of union with the several additions and alterations, in order to the approving thereof.
But it being moved that the said article with the additions and alterations should be first transcribed, the same was delayed until the next sederunt of parliament.
Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until Thursday next at 10 o'clock.
[James Ogilvy, earl of] Seafield, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament
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In the parliament 24 December 1706, there were two clauses given in, the first in these terms: and with proportional drawbacks and allowances as in England, with this exception that Scotland after the said seven years shall remain exempt from the duty of 2s 4d a bushel on home salt imposed by an act made in England in the 9th and 10th of King William the third of England, and if the parliament of Great Britain shall at or before the expiring of the said seven years substitute any other fund in place of the said 2s 4d of excise on the bushel of home salt, Scotland shall after the said seven years bear a proportion of the said fund and have an equivalent in the terms of the treaty; and the second in these terms: but Scotland shall in all time after the union be exempt from paying of all duty or tax on salt made in Scotland in so far only as the said salt shall be made use of within Scotland, but all salt made in Scotland from and after the union that shall be exported to England, or to any other nation in specie, or that shall be employed in salting of fish or butcher-meat to be exported, or for victualling of ships to go to England or any other nation, shall be liable to the same duties as shall be then payable for salt made in England, to be levied and secured in the same manner, and with like drawbacks and allowances as in England. And that after the union no salt whatsoever be brought from Scotland to England by land in any manner under the penalty of [...]. Whereupon a vote was stated approve of the first clause or second, and it carried first, and the list of members' names as they voted first or second (ordered to be printed) is as follows:
First:
Second: