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The estates of parliament ratify and approve the act of the committee for the common burdens of the date 31 March 1643 anent the common magazines of the kingdom and the necessary servants for keeping, scouring, oiling, dressing and mending the muskets and other arms and ammunition belonging to the public, and for fixing and making of musket stocks and stocks for other ammunition, and concerning their constant fees for the said charge, in the whole heads, articles and clauses of the same act and according to the tenor thereof. And also the said estates of parliament do hereby remit to the committee of estates the particular list given and produced by [Colonel Alexander Hamilton], general of artillery, of the names of the keepers of the magazines and their several charges relating thereto, and of their monthly pay craved for the same, to be taken into consideration by the committee of estates and with power to them to determine therein as they after consideration thereof shall find just and expedient.