[1704/7/40]¹

Procedure: motions for order of business

Moved by [James Douglas], duke of Hamilton that the resolve presented by him with the act for the two months' supply may be again taken into consideration.

Likewise moved that the act presented by [Roderick MacKenzie of Prestonhall], lord justice clerk, and declared by him to be for fourteen months' supply payable in two years may be likewise considered and, after reasoning thereon, the question being stated, whether a first reading should be given to the act for two months' or the act for six months' cess, and carried to the act for six months' cess, and a first reading accordingly ordered to be marked thereon.