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Prayers said.
Rolls called.
Minutes of the last sederunt read.
Then the act for plantation of kirks etc. again read, and was thereafter read by paragraphs, and, after the first paragraph was read, it being moved that the matter of plantation of kirks etc. be remitted to a commission, after debate thereon, the question was put if the matter of plantation of kirks and valuation of teinds shall be remitted to a commission or to the lords of council and session, and it carried to the lords of council and session.
Then a clause was offered in favour of the macers of privy council in these terms: declaring that the macers of privy council, who by their gifts did attend and officiate before the said commission of parliament, shall continue to attend and officiate before the said lords of session in the matter committed to them by this act, as they were in use to do before the said commission, and none else. And, after reasoning thereon, the vote was put add the clause or not, and it carried add.
And, after some amendments, the said act was read over. Then the vote was put approve of the act or not, and it carried approve.
Thereafter the draft of an act for additional premiums on the exportation of victual until 1 May again read, and, after reasoning thereon and the addition of a clause thereto, it was put to the vote approve of the act or not, and it carried not.
Then the act dissolving the feu duties of kirklands from the crown and discharging the reversion thereof again read, and, after some amendments, it was put to the vote approve the act or not, and it carried approve.
Overture for an act concerning surgeons and apothecaries in Edinburgh given in and read, and it was put to the vote mark a first reading thereon or order it to lie on the table, and it carried mark a first reading, and the same was ordered to be printed before a second reading.
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