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Act for establishing of a particular register of sasines for the sheriffdom of Argyll at Inveraray

The which day, the supplication given in to the king's majesty and estates of parliament by the gentry and commons of the sheriffdom of Argyll, bearing that in the act of parliament of 1617 regarding registration of sasines etc.² there was no particular register established to be kept within the sheriffdom of Argyll, but only one to be made in Dumbarton for the sheriffdoms of Dunbarton, Bute and Argyll, the keeper whereof always remains at Glasgow³, whereas there ought to be a particular register within the sheriffdom of Argyll as was the time of the secretary's register of sasines, and therefore desiring to establish a particular register for registration of sasines etc. within the said sheriffdom to be kept within the burgh of Inveraray in time coming, and to ordain the clerk register to appoint a depute for that effect, and to discharge the said particular register appointed by the said act of parliament to be kept at Dumbarton in so far as concerns the said sheriffdom of Argyll, as the supplication purports; being read and the desire thereof considered by his majesty and estates of parliament, his majesty and estates foresaid grant the desire above-written of the said supplication and give warrant to the clerk register to appoint a depute for keeping a register within the said burgh of Inveraray for registration of sasines, reversions and other writs of that nature appointed to be registered by the foresaid act of parliament within the bounds of the said sheriffdom of Argyll, the present depute being satisfied.