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Prayers said.
Rolls called.
Minutes of the last sederunt read.
Act in favour of the maiden hospital founded by the company of merchants in Edinburgh and Mary Erskine read a second time, and, after some amendments, was voted and approved.
Petition for Robert Martin of Burntbrae, tacksman of the excise of Aberdeenshire for the year 1693, for making up some damages sustained by him in prosecution of his tack read, and he recommended to her majesty in the terms of a deliverance there upon.
Petition for Sir George Hamilton of Tulliallan for approving of the report of the commission for public accounts in his favour and stating him creditor to the public read, and the consideration thereof recommended to her majesty.
Overture for an act for selling herring by measure read and ordered to be printed.
Petition of the professors of the university of Edinburgh for augmenting of their salaries read, and they recommended to her majesty in the terms of a deliverance thereupon.
As also upon a motion made in favour of the universities of St Andrews, Glasgow and Aberdeen, the parliament did recommend the professors of the said other universities to her majesty in the terms of the recommendation in favour of the professors of the university of Edinburgh.
Petition of the principal and professors of the King's and Marischal's colleges of Aberdeen, for allowing them some vacant stipends for carrying on and finishing some public works and paying their debts, read and ordered to lie on the table.
Ordered† for an act for rescinding the 15th act of the 5th session and the 13th act of 6th session of King William's parliament read and ordered to lie on the table.
Overture for an act anent cruives read, and a first reading ordered to be marked thereon, and ordered to be printed before a second reading.
The action at the instance of John Davie, brewer, against his creditors called, and protection granted to him according to the interlocutor on the process.
Petition for John Henry Huguetan for rectifying a mistake in the deliverance on his petition of 4 January last read, and the desire granted in the terms of a deliverance thereupon.
Petition for Sir Robert Blackwood, James Nairn, William Neilson and several others, owners of the ship St Andrew, in relation to the said ship which was seized by a Middelburg privateer, read and recommended to her majesty in the terms of a recommendation on the said petition.
The action at the instance of [Alexander] Colville of Kincardine against his creditors called, and being advised, protection was granted in the terms of the interlocutor thereupon.
Overture for an act for payment of the capital and interest to the proprietors of the African and Indian Company of Scotland out of the equivalent read, and, after some amendments, a first reading ordered to be marked thereon and ordered to be printed before a second reading.
Act for burying in woollen read a second time, and, after reasoning thereon, it was put to the vote approve of the act or not, and it carried approve.
Overture for an act concerning surgeons and apothecaries in Edinburgh read a second time.
Petition for the royal college of physicians in Edinburgh against the said act also read, and, after reasoning, it was moved that the physicians ought to be cited before the act can pass, and it was also moved that the physicians be heard relating thereto next sederunt of parliament.
And, after further reasoning, the vote was stated hear the parties' procurators next sederunt or cite, and it carried cite.
Petition for William Cochrane of Ferguslie in relation to his exoneration of the balance of his tack duty for the polls imposed by the parliament 1698, and the desire thereof granted, according to the deliverance on the petition.
Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until Wednesday next at 10 o'clock.
[James Ogilvy, earl of] Seafield, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament