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The estates of parliament, taking into their consideration the supplication given in by Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, making mention that he having a locality assigned to him by [Sir John Wemyss of Bogie], commissary-general, out of the sheriffdom of Dunbarton for payment of the garrison in the castle of Dumbarton, and that notwithstanding thereof the collectors of the said shire do not make payment to the soldiers thereof, and therefore desiring that warrant and order may be given to the committee of the shire and to the said collector to make speedy and thankful payment thereof out of the first and readiest of the maintenance of the said shire. Which supplication being heard and considered, the said estates of parliament have ordained and ordain the collector of the said shire, subcollectors and others having interest in the uplifting of the said maintenance to make thankful payment to the said Sir Charles Erskine of his said locality assigned to him out of the said sheriffdom of Dunbarton for payment of the said garrison, and that out of the first and readiest of the maintenance of the said shire, notwithstanding of the order given by the committee of war of the said shire in the contrary or of any other former order in discharging the payment of the maintenance.