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The commissioners of the estates, having consideration of the doubts and difficulties arising of the present estate of sundry places within this realm, and minding by their resolution of the said doubts to cut off all occasion whereby any of his highness's subjects indebted in the payment of any part of the late taxation appointed to be uplifted of the spiritual estate may think to suspend his highness's charges upon the ground of any of the said difficulties, have therefore found, declared and ordained that in all vacant places to which there is no titular provided, the collector general and his depute within the bounds where the said prelacy lies shall be charged with the tax of the said vacant prelacy, and they to have their relief upon their vassals, subvassals, feuars, tacksmen, ladies of terce, conjunct-fiars, life-renters and pensioners according to the act made regarding the uplifting of the taxation of £100,000 lately granted by the estates. Likewise where the prelacy is dissolved and the several kirks thereof provided to the ministry, the said collector general and his deputes within the bounds where the dissolved benefice lies shall be charged with the payment of the tax of the said dissolved prelacy, and they to have their relief against the titulars and possessors of the several benefices where the said prelacy is dissolved, who likewise shall have their relief upon their vassals, subvassals, tacksmen, pensioners and others particularly above-mentioned according to the foresaid act. As also where the titular is provided to the teinds only and the temporality conveyed in pension, the titular shall be charged with the payment of the whole tax of the benefice and have his relief upon the pensioner of the temporality and others foresaid. And likewise that the proprietor of benefices erected heritably or for term of life shall be charged within the payment of the tax of the whole benefice as the titulars thereof were of before it was erected, and shall have their relief of the vassals and others particularly above-mentioned according to the said act. In addition, it is also decreed and declared that no suspensions shall be granted to any party, suitor, but by the commissioners specially expressed in the same act, upon consignation always of the sum charged for, as is specially set down therein. And if any be granted by any other judgement, that the keeper of the signet in no way affix the same signet thereto, but remit the said suspensions to be passed by the said commissioners, the clerk of secret council and keeper of the court signet, who shall be answerable for the sums charged for in case they suffer the said suspensions to pass otherwise.