[1704/7/160]¹

Procedure: general remit to commission

General remit to the commission anent the public accounts

Upon reading of which account, the first three articles remitted to the commission to inquire if those that were receivers at that time received these balances, and the lords of treasury ordered to raise processes against the deficients. The fourth article with the abbreviate given in for exhausting the same, remitted to the commission. The fifth article, remitted to the commission. As to the payment of the sums in [James Douglas], duke of Queensberry's and late [Archibald Campbell], duke of Argyll's bonds, remitted to the commission to hear their defences, and to divide amongst the officers who had right to these funds out of which these sums were borrowed what shall be found due. As to Colonel Hamilton's bond, the contents thereof cleared formerly. As to all the fractions of cess omitted, the quota to be kept up and the collectors liable, and what is omitted in general, remitted to the commission to inquire thereupon and to report.