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Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament, considering that during the time of the late troubles of this kingdom there were some of his majesty's rents, customs and impost uplifted and intromitted with for serving of the present necessities of the public affairs of this kingdom by warrant of the late committee of estates and by other public orders, and that there were sundry bygone pensions and fees, due to diverse of his majesty's pensioners and servants, satisfied and paid to them, according to their rights and pensions by order of the late committee of estates residing at Edinburgh, and his majesty, being graciously pleased to approve and allow of the foresaid intromissions had and payment made in manner and for the causes above-written, therefore our said sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the said estates of parliament, ratifies, approves and dispenses with all such intromission with his majesty's rents, customs and impost as have been uplifted, paid and intromitted with preceding 29 June last for the uses and causes foresaid, together with the payment made of the same by public order as said is, and declares that the same payment made and intromission had by warrant from the said committee of estates or by other public orders preceding the said 29 June last are, and shall be, sufficient exoneration to the payers of the said rents, customs and impost and to the receivers of the same by virtue of the said public orders and to all others concerned therein. Likewise the discharges upon the payment thereof, by public order foresaid, shall be allowed to the payers of the same in the accounts of their intromission with his majesty's rents, customs and impost foresaid, to be made in his majesty's exchequer, concerning which this act shall be a sufficient warrant to all that are concerned therein and to the lords and commissioners of his majesty's exchequer to allow and defray the same in the said accounts to be made in exchequer by the chamberlains, intromitters with and receivers of his majesty's rents, customs and impost foresaid, and ordains account to be made of the said intromission in exchequer.
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Our sovereign lord and estates presently assembled, understanding how necessary and convenient it is that all yarn be bought and sold by weight, therefore our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the said estates, ratifies and approves the acts of his majesty's council ordaining the same to be sold by weight in all the heads, clauses and articles thereof, dated at Holyroodhouse, 28 July 1631, and ordains the same to stand as a law and to take effect in all time coming.
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Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament, having taken to their consideration that the registration of comprisings has put the lieges to great, needless and unnecessary charges and expense, and that the same does neither add to the validity of the comprisings nor to the benefit of the comprisers, and therefore have discharged, and by the tenor hereof discharge, all registration of comprisings, together with all gifts, acts of council and other warrants, practices or custom whatsoever granted or observed relating thereto, and declare that the same gifts, acts of council and other warrants, practices or custom to be null and of no value, force nor effect in all time coming. And also our sovereign lord and estates of parliament, considering that a short record of all comprisings of lands and annualrents, heritable bonds, contracts, reversions and others, and legals thereof, namely: of the comprisers' names and designations, the defenders' names, the debt for which the comprising is used, the lands and others comprised, the macers' and clerks' names, the times of the denunciations and executions and witnesses thereto, and date of the comprisings and of the superiors of the lands comprised, is very necessary for the lieges, their information, therefore statute and ordain that all comprisers shall be obliged to bring their comprisings to the clerk of the bills within 60 days after the date of the comprisings, to the effect that the same may be allowed by the lords of council and session; at the which time, ordain the said clerk to the bills to make a record of the said comprisings in a book wherein all comprisings shall be recorded in manner above-written, for the which allowance and recording of the said comprising in manner above-written the clerk shall have 40s for the whole record of each comprising and allowance, and also, for the extract of each record of the said comprisings that shall be extracted under the said clerk's hands, our sovereign lord and estates ordain the sum of 20s for every extract to be paid to the said clerk of the bills as due price competent to him, therefore which sum the said clerk shall not transcend under the pains contained in the acts of parliament.