[1704/7/51]¹

Procedure: order of business

The next diet of parliament appointed for considering the report from the commissioners appointed by the last session of parliament for inspecting the accounts of the public funds, and declared the parliament will then consider the petition given in by [John Murray], duke of Atholl and the officers of his late regiment, the petition for Lieutenant General [George] Ramsay, the petition for [Thomas Livingston], viscount of Teviot, the petition for Colonel George MacGill, the petition for the officers of the army and garrisons who want their clearing and clothing, the petition for Lieutenant Colonel John Hepburn, the petition for Captain Thomas Hay, the petition of the disbanded officers, the petition for the corporals in the independent troops of horse, petition of [William Kerr], marquis of Lothian, petition of John Auchmuty, petition of Sir William Douglas, petition of the widow of Captain Alexander Dunbar, petition of Captain David Lindsay, and all other officers' petitions relating to arrears.